Main Topics for this Advanced SQL Training Course

A high proficiency in SQL is key to the role of senior database administrators, data analysts, database developers & business intelligence developers. Data is complex and whether retrieving data for validation purposes, troubleshooting purposes or business intelligence and analytics purposes advanced SQL techniques can avoid the need for inefficient external programming and scripting tools.

This advanced database querying course is offered in a face to face classroom or virtual setting, although currently all training is being delivered remotely, and can be tailored to your needs.

The advanced SQL database querying course is aimed at anyone with challenging business intelligence and data analytics querying and SQL requirements or advanced SQL development needs. This course builds on your basic SQL knowledge and goes beyond the basic SELECT statement to guide you through how to integrate and manipulate complex SQL data sets, break large data sets down into manageable subsets for further processing, and derive challenging business calculations and categorisations through SQL queries.

You will learn to:

• Handle advanced joins to integrate data from many tables

• Break complex challenges into manageable and efficient stages using techniques such as temporary tables, views, common table expressions and subqueries

• See how to group data for the purposes of ranking, aggregating and summarising transactional data

• Integrate multiple query techniques to help satisfy all business information extraction needs

• Retrieve, cleanse, transform and prepare large and complicated data sets from SQL Server databases ready for data warehouse, semantic models, data analytics and business intelligence purposes

• Interpret query execution plans for query tuning

This course is relevant to: SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, SQL Server 2019, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Synapse.

Should you be interested in SQL Server certification:

The Microsoft certification program has now moved away from MCSA and MCSE to fundamental and role-based certifications. The SQL based MCSA and MCSE exams and certifications are being retired at the end of January 2021. Although there are now no exams focusing solely on SQL or SQL Server the SQL language remains a core pre-requisite requirement for both your data job role and the new Microsoft certifications.

What Next?

On completion of this course, delegates will have met the pre-requisites to attend the (TSQL) SQL Server Transact SQL Programming Course.