Oracle Database 12c: SQL Fundamentals

Course ID

31040

Course Description

Learning the SQL language is one of the most basic tasks required for the use of a relational database. SQL proficiency is essential for business users, database developers, database administrators and any other database professional. This course introduces the basics of the SQL language and the Oracle Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). One will become acquainted with the differences in the working environment between a traditional on-premise database installation and the Oracle database service cloud-computing platform. This course builds upon the prerequisite introductory volume from the Sideris Oracle Database 12c: SQL Expert Series and considers intermediate-level SQL topics such as writing database queries using the SQL-99 syntax and exploiting the power of built-in functions that extend the capabilities of SQL. You will learn how to complete of an application schema definition by creating database objects such as relational views, sequences, synonyms, indexes and others to compliment the table definitions. The crucial topic of data integrity and how this is protected using declarative constraints is covered.

Prerequisites

Many students taking this course have familiarity with system administration and administration of other non-Oracle databases, and this is helpful though not mandatory.

Audience

The primary audiences for this course are:
  • Business and non-IT professionals
  • Application designers and developers
  • Business Intelligence (BI) analysts and consumers
  • Database administrators
  • Web server administrators

Course Content

    Relational databases & data models
  • about data models
  • about the relational model
  • the electronics data model
  • about the relational dbms

    Selection & setup of the database interface
  • considering available tools
  • selecting the appropriate tool
  • oracle net database connections
  • oracle paas database connections
  • setup SQL developer
  • setup SQL*plus
  • setup jdeveloper

    Using the database interface
  • about bind & substitution variables
  • using SQL developer
  • using SQL*plus

    Introduction to the SQL language
  • about the SQL language
  • characteristics of SQL
  • introducing SQL using select
  • SQL rules

    The select statement
  • the select statement
  • distinct / unique keyword
  • using alias names

    Restricting results with the where clause
  • about logical operators
  • equality operator
  • boolean operators
  • regexp_like()
  • in operator

    Sorting data with the order by clause
  • about the order by clause
  • multiple column sorts
  • specify the sort sequence
  • about null values within sorts
  • using column aliases

    Pseudo columns, functions & top-n queries
  • rowid pseudo column
  • ora_rowscn pseudo column
  • rownum pseudo column
  • about the built-in functions
  • sysdate
  • user & uid
  • sessiontimezone function
  • using the dual table
  • row limiting & top-n queries
  • fetch first x rows only clause
  • offset x rows clause
  • fetch ... Percent clause
  • the with ties option

    Joining tables
  • about joins
  • inner join
  • reflexive join
  • non-key join
  • outer join

    Using the set operators
  • about the set operators
  • SQL set operator examples
  • union example
  • intersect example
  • minus example
  • union all

    Using sub-queries
  • finding data with sub-queries
  • standard sub-queries
  • correlated sub-queries
  • the exists operator

    Aggregating data within groups
  • about summary groups
  • find groups within the tables
  • select data from the base tables
  • select groups from the results
  • Use DDL to create & manage tables
  • create table statement
  • column data types
  • not null
  • default
  • describe
  • alter table statement
  • drop table statement
  • table DDL using SQL developer
  • alter user statement
  • alter session statement
  • nls_language
  • nls_date

    Use DML to manipulate data
  • the insert statement
  • the delete statement
  • the update statement
  • about transactions
  • transaction rollback
  • transaction commit
  • transaction savepoint
  • the set transaction statement
  • set transaction read only statement rules

    Understanding the data models
  • the company data model
  • the electronics data model

    About the SQL-99 standard
  • SQL-92 & SQL-99
  • cross joins
  • natural joins
  • inner joins
  • implicit inner join
  • outer joins
  • anti joins
  • named sub-queries

    Enhancing groups with rollup & cube
  • using rollup
  • the grouping() function
  • using cube

    SQL functions: character handling
  • what are the SQL functions?
  • string formatting functions
  • upper(), lower() example
  • initcap() example
  • character codes functions
  • chr(), ascii() examples
  • pad & trim functions
  • rpad() example
  • rtrim() example
  • trim() example
  • string manipulation functions
  • decode() example
  • substr() example
  • instr() example
  • translate() example
  • replace() example
  • string comparison functions
  • least() example
  • phonetic search function
  • soundex() example

    SQL functions: numeric handling
  • about the numeric data functions
  • greatest() example
  • abs() example
  • round() example
  • trunc() example
  • sign() example
  • to_number() example & data type conversions
  • null values functions
  • nvl() & nvl2() function
  • nvl() example (character)
  • nvl() example (numeric loss of data)
  • nvl() example (numeric output)
  • nvl2() example
  • coalesce() function
  • nullif() function

    SQL functions: date handling
  • date formatting functions
  • to_char() & to_date() format patterns
  • to_char() examples
  • to_date() examples
  • extract() example
  • date arithmetic functions
  • months_between() example
  • add_months() example
  • last_day() example
  • next_day() example
  • trunc(), round() dates example
  • new_time() example
  • about v$timezone_names
  • cast() function & time zones

    Database objects: about database objects
  • about database objects
  • about schemas
  • making object references
  • Database objects: relational views
  • about relational views
  • the create view statement
  • why use views?
  • accessing views with DML
  • maintaining view definitions
  • alter view
  • drop view
  • DDL using SQL developer

    Database objects: indexes
  • about indexes
  • create & drop index statements
  • indexes & performance
  • data dictionary storage

    Database objects: creating other objects
  • about sequences
  • referencing nextval
  • referencing currval
  • within the default clause
  • alter sequence & drop sequence
  • alter sequence
  • drop sequence
  • about identity columns
  • create table ... Generated as identity
  • alter table ... Generated as identity
  • start with limit value
  • alter table ... Drop identity
  • about synonyms
  • create & drop synonym statements
  • create synonym
  • drop synonym
  • public vs. Private synonyms
  • create schema authorization

    Database objects: object management using DDL
  • the rename statement
  • tablespace placement
  • create table ... Tablespace
  • the comment statement
  • the truncate table statement
  • Database objects: security
  • about object security
  • grant object privileges
  • revoke object privileges
  • object privileges & SQL developer
  • Data integrity using constraints
  • about constraints
  • not null constraint
  • not null example
  • check constraint
  • unique constraint
  • primary key constraint
  • references constraint
  • on delete cascade example
  • on delete set null example
  • constraints on existing tables
  • constraints & SQL developer

    Managing constraint definitions
  • renaming & dropping constraints
  • enabling & disabling constraints
  • deferred constraint enforcement
  • set constraints
  • handling constraint exceptions
  • constraints with views
  • data dictionary storage

    The data dictionary structure
  • more about the data dictionary
  • object-specific dictionary views
  • user_updatable_columns
  • the dictionary structure
  • metadata & SQL developer

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Course Details

Duration - 5 days
Price - $2995.00 USD


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