SQL Server 2000/2005: Transact-SQL Programming

About this class

The objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the advanced use of structured query language (SQL) for Microsoft SQL Server and the advanced use of Transact-SQL.

The course will provide delegates with the ability to carry out advanced, complex Data Manipulation Statements (DML) to query on, and change the contents of a relational database and extends this to programming in the Transact-SQL language to create SQL scripts, Stored Procedures and Triggers.

Who will the lesson benefit?

Delegates should be familiar with the Microsoft SQL Server SQL Language to the level of the SQL for SQL Server course

Contents of this class

• Review of Structured Query Language
• SELECT
• UPDATE
• INSERT
• DELETE
• Advanced Select Statements
• The GROUP BY Clause
• The HAVING Clause
• Sub-queries
• Correlated Sub-queries
• Advanced Update & Delete Statements
• Sub-queries
• Correlated Sub-queries
• Programmability
• Variables
• Control-Of-Flow Statements
• IF WHILE CASE GOTO RETURN
• Managing Errors
• Responding To Errors
• RAISERROR
• PRINT
• Using Transactions
• Introduction To Transactions
• Transaction Isolation Levels
• Deadlocks
• Transactional Error Handling
• Implementing Cursors
• Declaring Cursors
• OPEN
• FETCH
• CLOSE
• DEALLOCATE
• CURRENT OF
• Stored Procedures
• Introduction To Stored Procedures
• Creating Stored Procedures
• Passing values into a Stored Procedure
• Returning Information From Stored Procedures
• Altering Stored Procedures
• Triggers
• Introduction To Triggers
• Creating Triggers
• Transactional Error Handling
• Using Inserted and Deleted Tables