Querying Data with Microsoft Transact-SQL Training (DP-080)

Learn how to sort and filter query results 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Sort your results 
• Limit the sorted results 
• Return paged results 
• Remove duplicates 
• Filter data with predicates 

Explore T-SQL queries accessing data from multiple tables with various kinds of JOIN operations. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Describe join concepts and syntax 
• Write queries that use inner and outer joins 
• Write queries that use cross joins 
• Write queries that use self joins 

Learn how to use subqueries to combine multiple SELECT statements and compose nested queries. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Understand what subqueries are 
• Use scalar or multi-valued subqueries 
• Use self-contained or correlated subqueries 

Learn how to use functions in Transact-SQL, and how to group aggregated results. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Categorize built-in functions 
• Use scalar functions 
• Use ranking and rowset functions 
• Use aggregate functions 
• Summarize data with GROUP BY 
• Filter groups with HAVING 

Learn how to use Transact-SQL to insert, update, and delete data in a database. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Insert data into a table 
• Generate automatic values 
• Update data in a table 
• Delete data from a table 
• Merge data based on multiple tables