Oracle10g SQL Introduction to SQL Part I

This 3-day course is a common starting point in the Sideris Oracle database curriculum for administrators, developers and business users. The objective of this course is to provide an introduction to the SQL database language within the context of an Oracle database. Specific subject areas to be explored and objectives to be reached are:

• A summation of relational database principles and an introduction to the Oracle relational database server
• Using the iSQL*Plus web-based database interface and other traditional interfaces.
• Writing simple SQL queries and moderately complex SQL queries using various join techniques.
• Summarizing, grouping and sorting data.
• Advanced query techniques such as correlated subqueries.
• Developing simple SQL*Plus reports.
• Creating and maintaining database tables.
• Taking advantage of new features such as the use of regular expressions

Target audience

All Oracle professionals including application designers and developers, database administrators, business users and non-technical end-users. The course will help students to prepare for Exam 1Z1-042: Oracle Database 10g: Administration I. Students should have attended the following courses or have equivalent knowledge and/or experience:

• Advanced Technology Tour
• Oracle 10g Designer Data Modeling
• A basic understanding of computer programming concepts is helpful

Course content

RELATIONAL DATABASES & SQL ABOUT RELATIONAL DATABASES • ELEMENTS OF SQL

USING SQL*PLUS ABOUT SQL*PLUS • USING THE MS WINDOWS SQL*PLUS TOOL • USING THE ISQL*PLUS WEB TOOL • ENTERING COMMANDS & SYNTAX

BUILDING A SELECT STATEMENT ABOUT THE SELECT STATEMENT • SELECTING COLUMNS • USING ALIAS NAMES

BUILDING A WHERE CLAUSE ABOUT LOGICAL OPERATORS • EQUALITY OPERATOR • BOOLEAN OPERATORS • NULL & BETWEEN OPERATORS • FINDING TEXT STRINGS • IN OPERATOR

ORDERING THE RESULT TABLE ABOUT THE ORDER BY CLAUSE • MULTIPLE COLUMN SORTS • SPECIFYING THE SORT SEQUENCE • ABOUT NULL VALUES WITHIN SORTS • USING COLUMN ALIASES

PSEUDO COLUMNS & FUNCTIONS ABOUT PSEUDO COLUMNS & FUNCTIONS • USING ROWID • USING ROWNUM • USING THE FUNCTIONS • USING THE DUAL TABLE • SESSIONTIMEZONE FUNCTION

JOINING TABLES ABOUT JOINS • INNER JOIN • REFLEXIVE JOIN • NON-KEY JOIN • OUTER JOIN

USING SET OPERATORS ABOUT THE SET OPERATORS • SET OPERATOR EXAMPLES

SUMMARY FUNCTIONS ABOUT SUMMARY FUNCTIONS • SUMMARY FUNCTIONS WITH DISTINCT

USING SUBQUERIES ABOUT SUBQUERIES • STANDARD SUBQUERIES • CORRELATED SUBQUERIES

CREATING & SELECTING GROUPS ABOUT SUMMARY GROUPS • FINDING GROUPS WITHIN THE BASE TABLES • SELECTING DATA FROM THE BASE TABLES • SELECTING GROUPS FROM THE RESULT TABLE

SQL*PLUS COMMANDS ABOUT SQL*PLUS COMMANDS • MORE ABOUT SCRIPT FILES • INVOKING OPERATING SYSTEM COMMANDS • SAVING SESSION OUTPUT

BUILD SIMPLE SQL*PLUS REPORTS ABOUT THE SQL*PLUS REPORT FEATURES • SESSION OUTPUT WITH SET • FORMAT COLUMN OUTPUT WITH COLUMN • DEFINING REPORT BREAKS WITH BREAK • PRODUCE SUBTOTALS WITH COMPUTE

SQL DATA DEFINITION LANGUAGE ABOUT SQL DDL • CREATE TABLE STATEMENT • ALTER TABLE STATEMENT • DROP TABLE STATEMENT • SUPPORTIVE STATEMENTS

SQL DATA MANIPULATION LANGUAGE ABOUT SQL DML • ABOUT THE INSERT STATEMENT • ABOUT THE DELETE STATEMENT • ABOUT THE UPDATE STATEMENT • ABOUT TRANSACTIONS • TRUNCATE TABLE • COMPLEX TABLE REFERENCES

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