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Oracle Database 11g SQL Fundamentals Complete Library Print E-mail
Course Length - 5 Days
 
Course Description

The primary objective of this course is to consider advanced subjects and techniques pertaining to the SQL database language, based upon the latest features available with the Oracle release. Even professionals experienced in other implementations of the industry-standard SQL language will benefit from the advanced and Oracle-specific features of SQL discussed in this course.

 

Course Topics

This enhanced and expanded revision includes many new and expanded conceptual subjects, including:

  • Learn to use the SQL99 join syntax and learn about the full range of join operations available, such as natural join, inner join, cross join, outer joins and others.
  • Perform advanced SQL queries using techniques such as CASE structures, rollup and cube operations.
  • Moving beyond basic table definitions, learn to define the full range of database objects, such as advanced table definitions and the creation of indexes, sequences, views and others.
  • Use the powerful set of built-in SQL functions. These functions provide sophisticated manipulation of character, numeric and date data elements.
  • Taking advantage of the latest features found within the Oracle release, such as the handling and tolerating DML errors without application interruption, newly added functions, and other topics.
  • Obtain database object metadata from the data dictionary.
  • Understand basic database security and object privileges.
  • Protect database integrity and extend the conceptual data model using declarative constraints.
  • Using SQL Developer and other available SQL interfaces.
  • Develop complex SQL*Plus reports and reusable SQL*Plus scripts, as well as control the SQL*Plus environment.
 

Course Prerequisites

ORACLE DATABASE 11G: SQL FUNDAMENTALS I is a mandatory prerequisite for this course.

 

Who Should Attend?

The target audience for this course is all Oracle professionals, both business and systems professionals. Among the specific groups for whom this course will be helpful are:

  • Application designers and developers
  • Database administrators
  • Business users and non-technical senior end users.
 

Course Outline

RELATIONAL DATABASES & SQL

  • ABOUT RELATIONAL DATABASES
  • ELEMENTS OF SQL

CHOOSING A SQL & PL/SQL INTERFACE

  • ABOUT DATABASE CONNECTIONS
  • ABOUT BIND VARIABLES
  • USING SQL DEVELOPER
  • USING SQL*PLUS
  • USING APPLICATION EXPRESS

BUILDING A SELECT STATEMENT

  • ABOUT THE SELECT STATEMENT
  • USING ALIAS NAMES

RESTRICTING DATA WITH THE WHERE CLAUSE

  • ABOUT LOGICAL OPERATORS
  • EQUALITY OPERATOR
  • BOOLEAN OPERATORS
  • NULL & BETWEEN OPERATORS
  • IS [NOT] NULL Operator
  • [NOT] BETWEEN Operator
  • FINDING TEXT STRINGS
  • [NOT] LIKE Operator
  • REGEXP_LIKE()
  • IN OPERATOR

SORTING DATA WITH THE ORDER BY CLAUSE

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

PSEUDO COLUMNS & FUNCTIONS

  • USING ROWID
  • USING ROWNUM
  • USING THE FUNCTIONS
  • SYSDATE
  • USER & UID
  • USING THE DUAL TABLE
  • SESSIONTIMEZONE FUNCTION

JOINING TABLES

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

USING THE SET OPERATORS

  • ABOUT THE SET OPERATORS
  • SET OPERATOR EXAMPLES

SUMMARY FUNCTIONS

  • ABOUT SUMMARY FUNCTIONS
  • SUMMARY FUNCTIONS WITH DISTINCT

USING SUB-QUERIES

  • ABOUT SUB-QUERIES
  • STANDARD SUB-QUERIES
  • CORRELATED SUB-QUERIES

AGGREGATING DATA WITHIN GROUPS

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

BUILD SIMPLE SQL*PLUS REPORTS

  • FORMAT COLUMN OUTPUT WITH COLUMN
  • DEFINING REPORT BREAKS WITH BREAK
  • PRODUCE SUBTOTALS WITH COMPUTE

USE DATA DEFINITION LANGUAGE TO CREATE & MANAGE TABLES

  • CREATE TABLE STATEMENT
  • NOT NULL
  • DEFAULT
  • ALTER TABLE STATEMENT
  • DROP TABLE STATEMENT
  • SUPPORTIVE STATEMENTS
  • DESCRIBE
  • RENAME

USE DATA MANIPULATION LANGUAGE TO MANIPULATE DATA

  • ABOUT THE INSERT STATEMENT
  • ABOUT THE DELETE STATEMENT
  • ABOUT THE UPDATE STATEMENT
  • ABOUT TRANSACTIONS
  • ROLLBACK
  • COMMIT
  • SAVEPOINT
  • SET TRANSACTION
  • TRUNCATE TABLE
  • COMPLEX TABLE REFERENCES

APPENDIX A

  • REFERENCE INFORMATION
  • SQL DDL STATEMENT REFERENCE
  • SQL DML STATEMENT REFERENCE
  • SQL TRANSACTION CONTROL STATEMENT REFERENCE
  • SQL OPERATORS REFERENCE
 
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