Course DTC-70761
Querying Data with Transact-SQL Boot Camp
Course Description
This course is designed to introduce students to Transact-SQL. It is designed in such a way that the first three days can be taught as a course to students requiring the knowledge for other courses in the SQL Server curriculum. Days 4 & 5 teach the remaining skills required to take exam 70-761.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
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Describe key capabilities and components of SQL Server.
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Describe T-SQL, sets, and predicate logic.
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Write a single table SELECT statement.
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Write a multi-table SELECT statement.
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Write SELECT statements with filtering and sorting.
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Describe how SQL Server uses data types.
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Write DML statements.
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Write queries that use built-in functions.
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Write queries that aggregate data.
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Write subqueries.
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Create and implement views and table-valued functions.
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Use set operators to combine query results.
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Write queries that use window ranking, offset, and aggregate functions.
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Transform data by implementing pivot, unpivot, rollup and cube.
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Create and implement stored procedures.
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Add programming constructs such as variables, conditions, and loops to T-SQL code.
Who Should Attend
This exam is intended for SQL Server database administrators, system engineers, and developers with two or more years of experience who are seeking to validate their skills and knowledge in writing queries.
Course Outline
Manage data with Transact-SQL (40–45%)
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Create Transact-SQL SELECT queries
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Query multiple tables by using joins
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Implement functions and aggregate data
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Modify data
Query data with advanced Transact-SQL components (30–35%)
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Query data by using subqueries and APPLY
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Query data by using table expressions
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Group and pivot data by using queries
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Query temporal data and non-relational data
Program databases by using Transact-SQL (25–30%)
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Create database programmability objects by using Transact-SQL
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Implement error handling and transactions
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Implement data types and NULLs