What you’ll learn:
Set up your environment by installing Management Studio and SQL Server.
Creating, deleting and modifying a database and a table
Learning how to select data with the SELECT,Updating data with the UPDATE,Deleting data with DELETE and INSERT
Rename columns with aliases and Select a certain number of lines with the TOP
The usefulness of square brackets and comments on SQL
The IN, NOT IN, IS and IS NOT operators and Comparison operators = !=
Sort the data with the ORDER BY and Aggregate functions: MIN, MAV and AVG
Remove duplicates with the DISTINCT and Copying a table via SELECT INTO
AND and OR,BETWEEN operators and the HAVING.
Let’s combine the data with GROUP BY and the PRINT command.
A long chapter on SQL joins (INNER JOIN, LEFT and RIGHT JOIN, FULL OUTER JOIN,and so on).
Let’s discover the specificities of UNION and UNION ALL,and the LEFT and RIGHT function.
Let’s go even further with Transact SQL with the CHOOSE,IIF,CASE WHEN,SUBSTRING, OFFSET FETCH NEXT ROWS.
Have you heard of the CHOOSE, TRIM/LTRIM/RTIM or COALLESCE function?
Let’s look at the conversion functions through CAST and CONVERT, TRY_CAST and TRY_CONVERT, as well as TRY_PARSE and PARSE.
Discover the score functions (ROW_NUMBER,OVER PARTITION BY, LAG and LEAD,ROWS /RANGE UNBOUNDED PRECEDING, FIRST_VALUES and LAST_VALUES)
Create, modify and delete a view and a stored procedure
Tackle the little-known CTE (Common table expression)
And more than 50 practical exercises !