MS 20761: Querying Data with Transact-SQL
Audience:
The main purpose of the course is to give students a good understanding of the Transact-SQL language which is used by all SQL Server-related disciplines; namely, Database Administration, Database Development and Business Intelligence. As such, the primary target audience for this course is: Database Administrators, Database Developers and BI professionals.
Prerequisites:
- Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system and its core functionality.
- Working knowledge of relational databases.
Important notice!
This course will be replaced by a new course (to be relased in April 2021).
DP-080: Transact-SQL Querying
Course goals:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe key capabilities and components of SQL Server 2016.
- Describe T-SQL, sets, and predicate logic.
- Write a single table SELECT statement.
- Write a multi-table SELECT statement.
- Write SELECT statements with filtering and sorting.
- Describe how SQL Server uses data types.
- Write DML statements.
- Write queries that use built-in functions.
- Write queries that aggregate data.
- Write subqueries.
- Create and implement views and table-valued functions.
- Use set operators to combine query results.
- Write queries that use window ranking, offset, and aggregate functions.
- Transform data by implementing pivot, unpivot, rollup and cube.
- Create and implement stored procedures.
- Add programming constructs such as variables, conditions, and loops to T-SQL code.
Read complete course description:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/course.aspx?cid=20761
Certification - retires 31 January 2021
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This exam retires on January 31, 2021
This course is recommended as preparation for exam 70-761, which is the first of two exams leading to MCSA SQL Server 2016 Database Development certification.
