Mastering SQL Server Development

GreaterHeight Academy will teach you the basics of database design and the different SQL data types. Then help you to master the core concepts for the exam. In this track, you’ll learn how to write queries, functions, and stored procedures. You’ll also find out how to manage transactions, handle errors, and improve query performance.

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Mastering SQL Server Development

Who this course is for:

Beginner Database Developer.
Intermediate Database Developers.

Potential Database Administrators.

Everyone!

What you will Learn:

Basic Database Design (Tables, Columns, Data Types, Primary Keys, Normalization).
Using Microsoft SQL Management Studio.

SELECT Statements: Queries against single tables (Filtering, Ordering, Grouping).
DELETE: How to remove data from a database.
INSERT INTO: How to insert data into a table.

UPDATE: How to update existing data.
Filter groups of data using the HAVING clause.

Overall Database Development Best Practices.
Creating Relationships and Foreign Keys.
How to query related data from multiple tables.
How to export Query Results to Excel.

How to craft SQL statements based on real scenarios.
Create Complex Database Objects (Stored Procedures, Functions, Views, Triggers).

Using Aggregate Functions in SQL.

Backup and Restore Databases.
Generate Database Scripts for Automation.
How to manage database users and security.

Course Benefits & Key Features

Mastering SQL Server Development’s benefits and key features.

Modules

30+ Modules.

Lessons

80+ Lessons

Practical

40+ Hands-On Labs

Life Projects

5+ Projects

Resume

CV Preparations

Job

Jobs Reference

Recording

Session Recording

Interviews

Mock Interviews

Support

On Job Supports

Membership

Membership Access

Networks

Networking

Certification

Certificate of Completion

INSTRUCTOR-LED LIVE ONLINE CLASSES

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Get step-by-step guidance to practice your skills without getting stuck
Validate your technical problem-solving skills in a real environment
Troubleshoot complex scenarios to practice what you learned
Develop production experience that translates into real-world

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Why Mastering SQL Server Development?

High Paying Jobs

From startups to established companies, the job market looks good for SQL enthusiasts and it is expected to grow exponentially in the coming years.

Simple Troubleshooting

SQL is one of those programming languages in which you can easily troubleshoot the issues. If you try to use a missing table, the error displays that the table does not exist.

Data From Multiple Sources

SQL makes it very easy to combine data from multiple sources. It is done by using the UNION operations, in which you have to mention fields or databases which must be combined.

Data Manipulation

SQL Server gives the users an easier time to test and manipulate the data. SQL is the base of many data visualization tools like Google Data Studio, Tableau and Power BI.

Quick Access To Data & Manage Big Data

Because data is stored in an organized manner in SQL, it easily access data within seconds. So, SQL manages big amounts of data.

Easy To Learn

SQL is used to retrieve, manage and access data present in a table in the databases, with the help of simple queries. These queries can be easily understood, similar to English lang.

Client-Server Access & Management

With SQL Server, you can easily navigate through humongous amounts of data and understand how to retrieve data from a web app.

Perform Data Mining

With SQL queries, you can view update events, monitor table, and database activity, identify specific data at time intervals and retrieve the information for key trends.

Standardization

SQL was developed in the 1970s at IBM, by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond F Boyce. It has been used for the past 40 years, and the syntax and commands have not changed.

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Mastering SQL Server Development

Introduction to SQL Server

Master the basics of Microsoft SQL Server—one of the world's most popular database systems.

This course covers:

How to use SELECT statements to retrieve data
How to use SQL Server aggregate functions
How to manipulate text fields
How to retrieve data from multiple sources
All of the key aspects of working with data in SQL Server

Each time you're introduced to a new concept or function, you'll have the opportunity to test your knowledge and build your confidence. You'll work with a digital media database to review the sales of various artists and tracks, Eurovision datasets, and review trends in US power outages to explore a number of different data types and scenarios.

4 Modules | 5+ Hours | 4+ Skills

Course Modules

Hit the ground running by learning the basics of SELECT statements to retrieve data from one or more columns. You'll also learn how to apply filters to both numeric and text data, and sort the results.

Welcome
Simple selections
More selections
Ordering and filtering
Order by
Where
Where again
Working with NULL values
WHERE the wild things are
Exploring classic rock songs
Exploring classic rock songs - AND/OR
Using parentheses in your queries

Herein, you'll learn how to use important SQL Server aggregate functions such as SUM, COUNT, MIN, MAX, and AVG. Following that, you'll learn how to manipulate text fields. To round out the modules, you'll power up your queries using GROUP BY and HAVING, which will enable you to perform more meaningful aggregations.

Aggregating Data
Summing
Counting
MIN, MAX and AVG
Strings
LEN'gth of a string
Left and right
Stuck in the middle with you
Grouping and Having
GROUP BY
Having
Grouping together

This modules covers the basics of joining tables, using INNER, LEFT, and RIGHT joins, so that you can confidently retrieve data from multiple sources.

Joining tables
Inner Joins - a perfect match
Inner Joins (II)
Inner Join (III) - Join 3 tables
LEFT & RIGHT JOIN
LEFT join
RIGHT JOIN
UNION & UNION ALL
UNION ALL Check
Join the UNION

In this final modules, you'll get really hands on! You've worked with existing tables, but in this modules, you'll get to CREATE and INSERT data into them. You'll also UPDATE existing records and practice DELETE statements in a safe environment. This modules ensures the course gives you a thorough introduction to the key aspects of working with data in SQL Server.

Creator
CRUD operations
Create tables
Insert, Update, Delete
Insert
Update
Delete
Declare yourself
DECLARE and SET a variable
Declare multiple variables
Ultimate Power

Introduction to Relational Databases in SQL

Explore the Role of SQL in Relational Database Management

There are a lot of reasons why SQL is the go-to query language for relational database management. The main one is that SQL is a powerful language that can handle large amounts of data in complex ways and solve tricky analytical questions. In this course, you will gain an introduction to relational databases in SQL.

Learn how to create tables and specify their relationships, as well as how to enforce data integrity. Additionally, discover other unique features of database systems, such as constraints.

Create Your First Database

You begin the section by creating your first database with simple SQL commands. Next, you’ll learn how to update your database as the structure changes by migrating data and deleting tables.

In the final module, you will glue tables in foreign keys together and establish relationships that greatly benefit your data quality. Finally, you will run ad hoc analyses on your new database.

Understand the Basics of Relational Databases

By the end of the course, you will gain a basic yet essential understanding of SQL relational databases. They are widely used in various data science fields (from healthcare to finance) and have consequently become one of the crucial languages for data scientists. If you're interested in deepening your knowledge further, you may be interested in our SQL for Database Administrators, SQL Server Developer, and SQL Server for Database Administrators Tracks!

4 Modules | 5+ Hours | 4+ Skills

Course Modules

In this module, you'll create your very first database with a set of simple SQL commands. Next, you'll migrate data from existing flat tables into that database. You'll also learn how meta-information about a database can be queried.

Introduction to relational databases
Attributes of relational databases
Query information_schema with SELECT
Tables: At the core of every database
CREATE your first few TABLEs
ADD a COLUMN with ALTER TABLE
Update your database as the structure changes
RENAME and DROP COLUMNs in affiliations
Migrate data with INSERT INTO SELECT DISTINCT
Delete tables with DROP TABLE

After building a simple database, it's now time to make use of the features. You'll specify data types in columns, enforce column uniqueness, and disallow NULL values in this module.

Better data quality with constraints
Types of database constraints
Conforming with data types
Type CASTs
Working with data types
Change types with ALTER COLUMN
Convert types USING a function
The not-null and unique constraints
Disallow NULL values with SET NOT NULL
What happens if you try to enter NULLs?
Make your columns UNIQUE with ADD CONSTRAINT

Now let’s get into the best practices of database engineering. It's time to add primary and foreign keys to the tables. These are two of the most important concepts in databases, and are the building blocks you’ll use to establish relationships between tables.

Keys and superkeys
Get to know SELECT COUNT DISTINCT
Identify keys with SELECT COUNT DISTINCT
Primary keys
Identify the primary key
ADD key CONSTRAINTs to the tables
Surrogate keys
Add a SERIAL surrogate key
CONCATenate columns to a surrogate key
Test your knowledge before advancing

In the final module, you'll leverage foreign keys to connect tables and establish relationships that will greatly benefit your data quality. And you'll run ad hoc analyses on your new database.

Model 1:N relationships with foreign keys
REFERENCE a table with a FOREIGN KEY
Explore foreign key constraints
JOIN tables linked by a foreign key
Model more complex relationships
Add foreign keys to the "affiliations" table
Populate the "professor_id" column
Drop "firstname" and "lastname"p
Referential integrity
Referential integrity violations
Change the referential integrity behavior of a key
Roundup
Count affiliations per university
Join all the tables together.

Intermediate SQL Server

A majority of data is stored in databases and knowing the necessary tools needed to analyze and clean data directly in databases is indispensable. This course focuses on T-SQL, the version of SQL used in Microsoft SQL Server, needed for data analysis. You will learn several concepts in this course such as dealing with missing data, working with dates, and calculating summary statistics using advanced queries. After completing this course, you will have the skills needed to analyze data and provide insights quickly and easily.

4 Modules | 5+ Hours | 4+ Skills

Course Modules

One of the first steps in data analysis is examining data through aggregations. This module explores how to create aggregations in SQL Server, a common first step in data exploration. You will also clean missing data and categorize data into bins with CASE statements.

Data analysis with aggregations
Creating aggregations
Creating grouped aggregations
Dealing with missing data
Removing missing values
Imputing missing values (I)
Imputing missing values (II)
Binning data with CASE
Using CASE statements
Creating several groups with CASE

This module explores essential math operations such as rounding numbers, calculating squares and square roots, and counting records. You will also work with dates in this module!

Counting and totals
Calculating the total
Counting the number of rows
Dates
Which date function should you use?
Counting the number of days between dates
Adding days to a date
Rounding and truncating
Rounding numbers
Truncating numbers
More math functions
Calculating the absolute value
Calculating squares and square roots

In this module, you will create variables and write while loops to process data. You will also write complex queries by using derived tables and common table expressions.

WHILE loops
Creating and using variables
Creating a WHILE loop
Derived tables
Queries with derived tables (I)
Queries with derived tables (II)
Common Table Expressions
CTE syntax
Creating CTEs (I)
Creating CTEs (II)

In the final module of this course, you will work with partitions of data and window functions to calculate several summary stats and see how easy it is to create running totals and compute the mode of numeric columns.

Window functions in T-SQL
Window functions with aggregations (I)
Window functions with aggregations (II)
Common window functions
Do you know window functions?
First value in a window
Previous and next values
Increasing window complexity
Creating running totals
Assigning row numbers
Using windows for statistical functions
Calculating standard deviation
Calculating mode (I)
Calculating mode (II)

Time Series Analysis in SQL Server

SQL Server has a robust set of tools to prepare, aggregate, and query time series data. This course will show you how to build and work with dates, parse dates from strings (and deal with invalid strings), and format dates for reporting. From there, you will see how SQL Server's built-in aggregation operators and window functions can solve important business problems like calculating running totals, finding moving averages, and displaying month-over-month differences using realistic sample data sets. You will also see how taking a different perspective on your data can solve difficult problems.

4 Modules | 5+ Hours | 4 Skills

Course Modules

This module covers date and time functionality in SQL Server, including building dates from component parts, formatting dates for reporting, and working with calendar tables.

Building dates
Break out a date into year, month, and day
Break a date and time into component parts
Date math and leap years
Rounding dates
Formatting dates for reporting
Formatting dates with CAST() and CONVERT()
Formatting dates with FORMAT()
Working with calendar tables
The benefits of calendar tables
Try out a calendar table
Joining to a calendar table

Here, we'll be converting strings and other inputs to date and time data types.

Building dates from parts
Build dates from parts
Build dates and times from parts
Build dates and times with offsets from parts
Translating date strings
Cast strings to dates
Convert strings to dates
Parse strings to dates
Working with offsets
Changing a date's offset
Using the time zone DMV to look up times
Converting to a date offset
Handling invalid dates
Try out type-safe date functions
Convert imported data to dates with time zones
Test type-safe conversion function performance

In this module, we will learn techniques to aggregate data over time. We will briefly review aggregation functions and statistical aggregation functions. We will cover upsampling and downsampling of data. Finally, we will look at the grouping operators.

Basic aggregate functions
Summarize data over a time frame
Calculating distinct counts
Calculating filtered aggregates
Statistical aggregate functions
Working with statistical aggregate functions
Calculating median in SQL Server
Downsampling and upsampling data
Downsample to a daily grain
Downsample to a weekly grain
Downsample using a calendar table
Grouping by ROLLUP, CUBE, and GROUPING SETS
Generate a summary with ROLLUP
View all aggregations with CUBE
Generate custom groupings with GROUPING SETS
Combine multiple aggregations in one query

In this module, we will learn how to use window functions to perform calculations over time, including calculating running totals and moving averages, calculating intervals, and finding the maximum levels of overlap.

Using aggregation functions over windows
Contrasting ROW_NUMBER(), RANK(), and DENSE_RANK()
Aggregate window functions
Calculating running totals and moving averages
Running totals with SUM()
Investigating window frames
Calculating moving averages
Working with LAG() and LEAD()
Seeing prior and future periods
Seeing the prior three periods
Calculating days elapsed between incidents
Finding maximum levels of overlap
Analyze client data for potential fraud
Build a stream of events
Complete the fraud analysis
Wrapping up

Functions for Manipulating Data in SQL Server

In this section, you will learn how to make use of the most important functions for manipulating data provided by SQL Server. You can use these functions for processing and transforming data to get the results you want.

4 Modules | 5+ Hours | 4 Skills

Course Modules

In this module, you will learn what are the most used data types in SQL Server. You will understand the differences between implicit and explicit conversion and how each type of conversion manifests. You will also get familiar with the functions used for explicitly converting data: CAST() and CONVERT().

Welcome to this section!
Working with different types of data
Storing dates in a database
Types of character strings
Implicit conversion
Implicit conversion between data types
Data type precedence
Explicit conversion
CASTing data
CONVERTing data
Working with the correct data types

Date and time functions are an important topic for databases. In this module, you will get familiar with the most common functions for date and time manipulation. You will learn how to retrieve the current date, only parts from a date, to assemble a date from pieces and to check if an expression is a valid date or not.

Functions that return system date and time
Get the know the system date and time functions
Selecting parts of the system's date and time
Functions returning date and time parts
Extracting parts from a date
Generating descriptive date parts
Presenting parts of a date
Creating a date from parts
Performing arithmetic operations on dates
Arithmetic operations with dates
Modifying the value of a date
Calculating the difference between dates
Validating if an expression is a date
Changing the date format
Changing the default language
Correctly applying different date functions

Strings are one of the most commonly used data types in databases. It's important to know what you can do with them. In this module, you will learn how to manipulate strings, to get the results you want.

Functions for positions
Calculating the length of a string
Looking for a string within a string
Looking for a pattern within a string
Functions for string transformation
Changing to lowercase and uppercase
Using the beginning or end of a string
Extracting a substring
Replacing parts of a string
Functions manipulating groups of strings
Concatenating data
Aggregating strings
Splitting a string into pieces
Applying various string functions on data

In this module, you will work with functions applied to numeric data. You will use aggregate functions for calculating the minimum, maximum or the sum of values from a set. You will learn how to raise a number to a power or to calculate its square root.

Aggregate arithmetic functions
Learning how to count and add
MINimizing and MAXimizing some results
Analytic functions
Accessing values from the next row
Accessing values from the previous row
Getting the first and last value
Mathematical functions
Extracting the sign and the absolute valuep
Rounding numbers
Working with exponential functions
Manipulating numeric data
Wrapping things up

Database Design

A good database design is crucial for a high-performance application. Just like you wouldn't start building a house without the benefit of a blueprint, you need to think about how your data will be stored beforehand. Taking the time to design a database saves time and frustration later on, and a well-designed database ensures ease of access and retrieval of information. While choosing a design, a lot of considerations have to be accounted for. In this course, you'll learn how to process, store, and organize data in an efficient way. You'll see how to structure data through normalization and present your data with views. Finally, you'll learn how to manage your database and all of this will be done on a variety of datasets from book sales, car rentals, to music reviews.

4 Modules | 5+ Hours | 4 Skills

Course Modules

Start your journey into database design by learning about the two approaches to data processing, OLTP and OLAP. In this first module, you'll also get familiar with the different forms data can be stored in and learn the basics of data modeling.

OLTP and OLAP
OLAP vs. OLTP
Which is better?
Storing data
Name that data type!
Ordering ETL Tasks
Recommend a storage solution
Database design
Classifying data models
Deciding fact and dimension tables
Querying the dimensional model

In this module, you will take your data modeling skills to the next level. You'll learn to implement star and snowflake schemas, recognize the importance of normalization and see how to normalize databases to different extents.

Star and snowflake schema
Running from star to snowflake
Adding foreign keys
Extending the book dimension
Normalized and denormalized databases
Querying the star schema
Querying the snowflake schema
Updating countries
Extending the snowflake schema
Normal forms
Converting to 1NF
Converting to 2NF
Converting to 3NF

Get ready to work with views! In this module, you will learn how to create and query views. On top of that, you'll master more advanced capabilities to manage them and end by identifying the difference between materialized and non-materialized views.

Database views
Tables vs. views
Viewing views
Creating and querying a view
Managing views
Creating a view from other views
Granting and revoking access
Updatable views
Redefining a view
Materialized views
Materialized versus non-materialized
Creating and refreshing a materialized view
Managing materialized views

This final module ends with some database management-related topics. You will learn how to grant database access based on user roles, how to partition tables into smaller pieces, what to keep in mind when integrating data, and which DBMS fits your business needs best.

Database roles and access control
Create a role
GRANT privileges and ALTER attributes
Add a user role to a group role
Table partitioning
Reasons to partition
Partitioning and normalization
Creating vertical partitions
Creating horizontal partitions
Data integration
Data integration do's and dont's
Analyzing a data integration plan
Picking a Database Management System (DBMS)
SQL versus NoSQL
Choosing the right DBMS

Transactions and Error Handling in SQL Server

It is critical to know how to handle errors and manage transactions when programming SQL scripts. Unhandled errors can be very harmful and can cause unexpected situations, such as inconsistent data in your database, or even worse, errors can lead you to make wrong business decisions. In this course, you will learn how to handle errors and discover how to manage transactions in case of an error. Additionally, you will study what happens when two or more people interact at the same time with the same data. You will practice all these concepts using two datasets, one of them based on bank accounts and the other one on an electric bike store.

4 Modules | 5+ Hours | 4 Skills

Course Modules

To begin the course, you will learn how to handle errors using the TRY...CATCH construct that provides T-SQL. You will study the anatomy of errors, and you will learn how to use some functions that can give you information about errors.

Welcome!
The TRY...CATCH syntax
Your first error-handling script
Nesting TRY...CATCH constructs
Error anatomy and uncatchable errors
Anatomy review
Correcting compilation errors
Giving information about errors
Error function syntax
Using error functions
Using error functions in a nested TRY...CATCH

In this module, you will deepen your knowledge of handling errors. You will learn how to raise errors using RAISERROR and THROW. Additionally, you will discover how to customize errors.

RAISERROR
RAISERROR syntax
CATCHING the RAISERROR
THROW
THROW with or without parameters
THROW without parameters
Executing a stored procedure that throws an error
THROW with parameters
Customizing error messages in the THROW statement
Ways of customizing error messages
Concatenating the message
FORMATMESSAGE with message string
FORMATMESSAGE with message number

In this module, you will be introduced to the concept of transactions. You will discover how to commit and rollback them. You will finish by learning how to return the number of transactions and their state.

Transactions
Transaction statements
Correcting a transaction
Rolling back a transaction if there is an error
Choosing when to commit or rollback a transaction
@@TRANCOUNT and savepoints
Modifiers of the @@TRANCOUNT value
Checking @@TRANCOUNT in a TRY...CATCH construct
Using savepoints
XACT_ABORT & XACT_STATE
XACT_ABORT behavior
XACT_ABORT and THROW
Doomed transactions

This module defines what concurrency is and how it can affect transactions. You will learn exciting concepts like dirty reads, repeatable reads, and phantom reads. To avoid or allow this reads, you will explore, one by one, the different transaction isolation levels.

Transaction isolation levels
Concurrency phenomena
Using the READ UNCOMMITTED isolation level
READ COMMITTED & REPEATABLE READ
Choosing the correct isolation level
Prevent dirty reads
Preventing non-repeatable reads
SERIALIZABLE isolation level
Prevent phantom reads in a table
Prevent phantom reads just in some rows
SNAPSHOT
Setting READ COMMITTED SNAPSHOT to ON
Comparing WITH (NOLOCK) & READ UNCOMMITTED
Avoid being blocked
Congratulations!

Writing Functions and Stored Procedures in SQL Server

Take your SQL Server programming to the next level. First, we demystify how to manipulate datetime data by performing temporal exploratory data analysis with the Washington DC BikeShare transactional dataset. Then, you’ll master how to create, update, and execute user-defined functions and stored procedures. You will learn the proper context for each modular programming tool and best practices. In the final module, you will apply all of your new skills to solve a real-world business case identifying the New York City yellow taxi utilization for each borough, and which pickup locations should be scheduled for each driver shift.

4 Modules | 5+ Hours | 4 Skills

Course Modules

Learn how to do effective exploratory data analysis on temporal data, create scalar and table variables to store data, and learn how to execute date manipulation. This module will also cover the following SQL functions: DATEDIFF( ), DATENAME( ), DATEPART( ), CAST( ), CONVERT( ), GETDATE( ), and DATEADD( ).

Introduction to the course
Transactions per day
Seconds or no seconds?
Which day of week is busiest?
Find the outliers
Variables for datetime data
DECLARE & CAST
DECLARE a TABLE
INSERT INTO @TABLE
Date manipulation
Parameters matter with DATEDIFF
First day of month

This module will explain how to create, update, and execute user-defined functions (UDFs). You will learn about the various types of UDFs: scalar, inline, and multi-statement table-valued. You’ll also learn best practices.

Scalar user defined functions
What was yesterday?
One in one out
Multiple inputs one output
Table valued UDFs
Inline TVF
Multi statement TVF
UDFs in action
Execute scalar with select
EXEC scalar
Execute TVF into variable
Maintaining user defined functions
CREATE OR ALTER
Best practices

Learn how to create, update, and execute stored procedures. Investigate the differences between stored procedures and user defined functions, including appropriate scenarios for each.

Stored procedures
CREATE PROCEDURE with OUTPUT
Output parameters vs. Return values
Oh CRUD!
Use SP to INSERT
Use SP to UPDATE
Use SP to DELETE
Let's EXEC!
EXECUTE with OUTPUT parameter
EXECUTE with return value
EXECUTE with OUTPUT & return value
TRY & CATCH those errors!
Your very own TRY..CATCH
CATCH an error

Apply your new skills in temporal EDA, user-defined functions, and stored procedures to solve a business case problem. Analyze the New York City taxi ride dataset to identify average fare per distance, ride count, and total ride time for each borough on each day of the week. And which pickup locations within the borough should be scheduled for each driver shift?

Case study EDA & imputation
Use EDA to find impossible scenarios
SPs vs UDFs
Mean imputation
Hot Deck imputation
Case study UDFs
CREATE FUNCTIONs
Test FUNCTIONs
Formatting tools
Logical weekdays with Hot Deck
Format for Germany
Case study stored procedures
NYC Borough statistics SP
NYC Borough statistics results
Pickup locations by shift
Pickup locations by shift results
Congratulations!

Building and Optimizing Triggers in SQL Server

Auditing your SQL Server database and keeping data integrity can be a challenging task for DBAs and database developers. SQL Server triggers are special types of stored procedures designed to help you achieve consistency and integrity of your database. This course will teach you how to work with triggers and use them in real-life examples. Specifically, you will learn about the use cases and limitations of triggers and get practice designing and implementing them. You will also learn to optimize triggers to fit your specific needs.

4 Modules | 5+ Hours | 4 Skills

Course Modules

An introduction to the basic concepts of SQL Server triggers. Create your first trigger using T-SQL code. Learn how triggers are used and what alternatives exist.

Introduction
Types of trigger
Creating your first trigger
Practicing creating triggers
How DML triggers are used
When to use triggers
Creating a trigger to keep track of data changes
Trigger alternatives
Triggers vs. stored procedures
Triggers vs. computed columns

Learn about the different types of SQL Server triggers: AFTER triggers (DML), INSTEAD OF triggers (DML), DDL triggers, and logon triggers.

AFTER triggers (DML)
Tracking retired products
The TrackRetiredProducts trigger in action
Practicing with AFTER triggers
INSTEAD OF triggers (DML)
Preventing changes to orders
PreventOrdersUpdate in action
Creating the PreventNewDiscounts trigger
DDL triggers
Tracking table changes
Using FOR in a trigger
Preventing table deletion
Logon triggers
Enhancing database security
Defining a logon trigger

Find out known limitations of triggers, as well as common use cases for AFTER triggers (DML), INSTEAD OF triggers (DML) and DDL triggers.

Known limitations of triggers
Trigger limitations
Creating a report on existing triggers
Use cases for AFTER triggers (DML)
Keeping a history of row changes
Table auditing using triggers
Use cases for INSTEAD OF triggers (DML)
Preventing changes to Products
Checking stock before placing orders
Use cases for DDL triggers
Database auditing
Preventing server changes

Learn to delete and modify triggers. Acquaint yourself with the way trigger management is done. Learn how to investigate problematic triggers in practice.

Deleting and altering triggers
Removing unwanted triggers
Modifying a trigger's definition
Disabling a trigger
Re-enabling a disabled trigger
Trigger management
Managing existing triggers
Counting the AFTER triggers
Troubleshooting triggers
Keeping track of trigger executions
Identifying problematic triggers
Wrapping up

Improving Query Performance in SQL Server

A mission critical assignment is depending on your SQL coding skills. You’ve been given some code to fix. It is giving the results you need but it’s running too slow, and it’s poorly formatted making it hard to read. The deadline is tomorrow. You’ll need to reformat the code and try different methods to improve performance. The pressure is on!!! In this section we’ll be using SQL on real world datasets, from sports and geoscience, to look at good coding practices and different ways how we can can improve the performance of queries to achieve the same outcome.

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In this module, students will learn how SQL code formatting, commenting, and aliasing is used to make queries easy to read and understand. Students will also be introduced to query processing order in the database versus the order of the SQL syntax in a query.

Introduction
Formatting - player BMI
Commenting - player BMI
Commenting - how many Kiwis in the NBA?
Aliasing
Ambiguous column names
Aliasing - team BMI
Query order
Processing order
Syntax order - New Zealand earthquakes
Syntax order - Japan earthquakes
Syntax order - very large earthquakes

This module introduces filtering with WHERE and HAVING and some best practices for how (and how not) to use these keywords. Next, it explains the methods used to interrogate data and the effects these may have on performance. Finally, the module goes over the roles of DISTINCT() and UNION in removing duplicates and their potential effects on performance.

Filtering with WHERE
Column does not exist
Functions in WHERE
Test your knowledge of WHERE
Filtering with HAVING
Row filtering with HAVING
Filtering with WHERE and HAVING
Test your knowledge of HAVING
Interrogation after SELECT
SELECT what you need
Limit the rows with TOP
Should I use ORDER BY?
Managing duplicates
Remove duplicates with DISTINCT()
UNION and UNION ALL
UNION or DISTINCT()?

This module is an introduction to sub-queries and their potential impacts on query performance. It also examines the different methods used to determine if the data in one table is present, or absent, in a related table.

Sub-queries
Uncorrelated sub-query
Correlated sub-query
Sub-query vs INNER JOIN
Presence and absence
INTERSECT
EXCEPT
Interrogating with INTERSECT
Alternative methods 1
IN and EXISTS
NOT IN and NOT EXISTS
NOT IN with IS NOT NULL
Alternative methods 2
INNER JOIN
Exclusive LEFT OUTER JOIN
Test your knowledge

Students are introduced to how STATISTICS TIME, STATISTICS IO, indexes, and executions plans can be used in SQL Server to help analyze and tune query performance.

Time statistics
STATISTICS TIME in queries
STATISTICS TIME results
Page read statistics
STATISTICS IO: Example 1
STATISTICS IO: Example 2
STATISTICS IO comparison
Indexes
Test your knowledge of indexes
Clustered index
Execution plans
Sort operator in execution plans
Test your knowledge of execution plans
Query performance tuning: final notes

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Mastering SQL Server Development

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Mastering SQL Server Development’s benefits and key features.

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Mastering SQL Server Development

Module 1: SELECTion Box

Module 2: Groups, strings, and counting things

Module 3: Joining tables

Module 4: The power of CRUD operations

Module 1: Your First Database

Module 2: Enforce Data Consistency With Attribute Constraints

Module 3: Uniquely Identify Records with Key Constraints

Module 4: Glue Together Tables with Foreign keys

Module 1: Summarizing Data

Module 2: Math Functions

Module 3: Processing Data in SQL Server

Module 4: Window Functions

Module 1: Working with Dates and Times

Module 2: Converting to Dates and Times

Module 3: Aggregating Time Series Data

Module 4: Answering Time Series Questions with Window Functions

Module 1: Choosing the Appropriate Data Type

Module 2: Manipulating Time

Module 3: Working With Strings

Module 4: Recognizing Numeric Data Properties

Module 1: Processing, Storing, and Organizing Data

Module 2: Database Schemas and Normalization

Module 3: Database Views

Module 4: Database Management

Module 1: Starting with Error Handling

Module 2: Raising, Throwing and Customizing your Errors

Module 3: Transactions in SQL Server

Module 4: Controlling the Concurrency: Transaction Isolation Levels

Module 1: Temporal EDA, Variables & Date Manipulation

Module 2: User Defined Functions

Module 3: Stored Procedures

Module 4: NYC Taxi Ride Case Study

Module 1: Introduction to Triggers

Module 2: Classification of Triggers

Module 3: Trigger Limitations and Use Cases

Module 4: Trigger Optimization and Management

Module 1: Introduction, Review and The Order of Things

Module 2: Filtering and Data Interrogation

Module 3: Sub-Queries and Presence or Absence

Module 4: Query Performance Tuning

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