MS SQL Server Advanced Course
Course summary
SQL Sub-queries
·Sub-queries in the WHERE, SELECT, From or Having clauses ·Using SOME, ALL, ANY and IN clauses in the Where Clause ·Self-contained sub-queries ·Correlated sub-queries ·Sub-queries with the EXISTS predicate
Derived Tables and CTEs ·Using SQL derived tables ·SQL Common Table Expressions (CTEs) ·Recursive CTEs
Create, alter and drop Views, Indexes
SQL Stored Procedure Basics ·Stored Procedure Principles ·Creating stored procedures ·Executing stored procedures ·System stored procedures
Variables ·Declaring variables ·SET versus SELECT
Parameters and Return Values ·Passing parameters ·Default values and WHERE clauses ·Output parameters ·Using RETURN
Testing Conditions ·The IF/ELSE statement ·CASE ·CHOOSE
Looping ·Syntax of SQL WHILE ·Breaking out of a loop ·Basic transactions ·Beginning a transaction ·Committing/rolling back ·Deleting and updating ·Using DELETE and UPDATE ·Sys.Objects ·Dropping objects
User defined Functions Table Valued Functions ·In-line table-valued functions ·Multi- Statement table-valued functions ·Limitations of user-defined functions
Scalar Functions ·What are scalar functions? ·Some examples ·Disadvantages of scalar functions ·Three advantages
Cursors ·Syntax of fetching rows ·When to use (and when not to)
Triggers Create or replace triggers
Creating Tables in SQL ·Create, alter and drop Tables ·Inserting values, single rows and multiple rows using queries
Constraints: Not Null Unique Default Check Primary Key Foreign Key Identity / Auto-increments Sequencing Indexes
SQL Temporary Tables and Table Variables ·Create and use SQL temporary tables ·Create and use SQL table variables ·SQL Tables vs. Table Variables
Error-Handling ·SQL TRY/CATCH ·SQL System error functions ·Customizing SQL error messages ·@@ error function
Debugging ·The SQL Server debugger, Debugging (breakpoints, etc.)
