Microsoft SQL from scratch - Beginner to Expert

Practical Hands-on Real World SQL Skills

What you'll learn:

• Extract and Read Data Using SELECT statements
• Insert new data into database
• Update existing data in a database
• Delete data from a database
• Understand Normalization
• Extract Data from multiple tables using table joins
• Filter data returned from a query
• Sort data returned by a query
• Group data returned by a query
• Summarize data using aggregate functions
• Build real world queries for business intelligence
• Remove Duplicate Records

Data is everywhere and growing at a rapid rate. Most Software application we interact with daily deals with stored data . From our interaction with our banks to social media.

Due to the relevance and dependency on data , professionals that are skilled in SQL are always in high demand to help interact with various databases to help business intelligence and other sectors that relies on data.

This course will teach you from absolute beginner to expert so you can be confident with enough skills to build simple to complex queries to communicate and interact with databases.

SQL -Structured Query Language is an internationally recognised language used to communicate and manipulate various database systems.T-SQL - Transact SQL is Microsoft's implementation of SQL. There are a lot of similarities between them but also proprietary parts that are specific to SQL Server.

We will be using Microsoft's version of SQL ( T-SQL ) popularly referred to as T-Sequel with Microsoft SQL Server .

SQL Server is a relational database management system -RDBMS developed and owned by Microsoft.Thousands of companies all over the world use SQL Server for their data solution .

What You Will Learn include:

• How to extract data from multiple Database Tables using Joins

• How to insert new data into database with SQL

• How to update existing data inside a database

• How to delete data from a database

• How to filter data

• How to sort data

• How to create and query views

• How to build a stored procedure

• How to use Aggregate functions to summarize returned data

• How to group data

SQL can be used for Data Analysis to transform data already present in the database to valuable useful information that help companies and organisations make key business and management decisions.

This course is a beginners guide to performing data analysis using SQL to interrogate SQL Server to provide answers to data related questions. You will learn to write useful SQL queries that is applicable to the Real World production environment.

Everywhere data is being collected, every transaction, every web page visit,every payment—all these and much, much more are filling relational databases with raw data that can be analysed to provide useful information.

There is a demand for people who can use data to perform reporting and analysis thus helping businesses and organizations make important and critical decisions.