ORA10g008 - Oracle Database 10g: Introduction to SQL I

Course ORA10g008

Table of Contents

Introduction
Audience
At Course Completion
Prerequisites
Certified Professional Exams
Student Materials
Course Outline

Introduction

This course is a common starting point in the Sideris Oracle database curriculum for administrators, developers and business users. The objective of this course is to provide an introduction to the SQL database language within the context of an Oracle database.

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Audience

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:

• End-Users and Analysts
• Application designers and developers
• Database administrators

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At Course Completion

Specific subject areas to be explored and objectives to be reached are:

• A summation of relational database principles and an introduction to the Oracle relational database server.
• Using the iSQL*Plus web-based database interface and other traditional interfaces.
• Writing simple SQL queries and moderately complex SQL queries using various join techniques.
• Summarizing, grouping and sorting data.
• Advanced query techniques such as correlated subqueries.
• Developing simple SQL*Plus reports.
• Creating and maintaining database tables.
• Taking advantage of new features such as the use of regular expressions.
• Moving beyond basic table definitions, consideration of defining the full range of database objects, such as advanced table definitions, indexes, sequences, views and others.
• Understanding basic database security and object privileges.
• Using the powerful set of built-in SQL functions.
• Protecting the database and extending the basic data model using declarative constraints.
• Performing advanced SQL queries such as grouping and cube operations and SQL99 join syntax.
• Developing complex SQL*Plus reports and using SQL*Plus scripts.

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Prerequisites

No mandatory prerequisites exist for this course. The following prerequisites are recommended:

• A-162, Relational Database Design Concepts

Suggested Next Course

• ora10g009, Oracle Database 10g: Introduction to SQL II (2 days)
• ora10g002, Oracle Database 10g: Architecture For Developers (2 days)
• ora10g003, Oracle Database 10g: SQL Tuning (5 days)
• ora10g101, Oracle Database 10g: Program With PL/SQL (5 days)

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Certified Professional Exams

This course, along with ora10g009, Oracle Database 10g: Introduction to SQL II, will help the student prepare for the following Certified Professional exams:

• Exam #1Z0-007 Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL

Following the training sessions, Oracle Corporation recommends six-months production experience with the technology prior to taking the certification examinations. While this is good practice, it may not be necessary for all individuals.

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Student Materials

The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook and other necessary materials for this class.

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Course Outline

RELATIONAL DATABASES & SQL
• ABOUT RELATIONAL DATABASES
• ELEMENTS OF SQL

USING SQL*PLUS
• ABOUT SQL*PLUS
• USING THE MS WINDOWS SQL*PLUS TOOL
• USING THE ISQL*PLUS WEB TOOL
• ENTERING COMMANDS & SYNTAX

BUILDING A SELECT STATEMENT
• ABOUT THE SELECT STATEMENT
• SELECTING COLUMNS
• USING ALIAS NAMES

BUILDING A WHERE CLAUSE
• ABOUT LOGICAL OPERATORS
• EQUALITY OPERATOR
• BOOLEAN OPERATORS
• NULL & BETWEEN OPERATORS
• FINDING TEXT STRINGS
• IN OPERATOR

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

PSEUDO COLUMNS & FUNCTIONS
• ABOUT PSEUDO COLUMNS & FUNCTIONS
• USING ROWID
• USING ROWNUM
• USING THE FUNCTIONS
• USING THE DUAL TABLE
• SESSIONTIMEZONE FUNCTION

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

SQL99 JOIN TECHNIQUES
• CROSS JOINS
• NATURAL JOINS
• INNER JOINS
• OUTER JOINS
• ANTI JOINS
• USING NAMED SUBQUERIES

ENHANCING GROUPS WITH ROLLUP & CUBE

USING THE CASE EXPRESSION

SQL FUNCTIONS: CHARACTER
• WHAT ARE THE SQL FUNCTIONS?
• CHARACTER FUNCTIONS
• About GREATEST(), LEAST()

SQL FUNCTIONS: NUMERIC

SQL FUNCTIONS: DATE
• DATE FORMAT FUNCTIONS
• DATE ARITHMETIC FUNCTIONS

USING SET OPERATORS
• ABOUT THE SET OPERATORS
• SET OPERATOR EXAMPLES
SUMMARY FUNCTIONS
• ABOUT SUMMARY FUNCTIONS
• SUMMARY FUNCTIONS WITH DISTINCT

USING SUBQUERIES
• ABOUT SUBQUERIES
• STANDARD SUBQUERIES
• CORRELATED SUBQUERIES
CREATING & SELECTING GROUPS
• ABOUT SUMMARY GROUPS
• FINDING GROUPS WITHIN THE BASE TABLES
• SELECTING DATA FROM THE BASE TABLES
• SELECTING GROUPS FROM THE RESULT TABLE

SQL*PLUS COMMANDS
• ABOUT SQL*PLUS COMMANDS
• MORE ABOUT SCRIPT FILES
• INVOKING OPERATING SYSTEM COMMANDS
• SAVING SESSION OUTPUT

BUILD SIMPLE SQL*PLUS REPORTS
• ABOUT THE SQL*PLUS REPORT FEATURES
• SESSION OUTPUT WITH SET
• FORMAT COLUMN OUTPUT WITH COLUMN
• DEFINING REPORT BREAKS WITH BREAK
• PRODUCE SUBTOTALS WITH COMPUTE

SQL DATA MANIPULATION LANGUAGE
• ABOUT SQL DML
• ABOUT THE INSERT STATEMENT
• ABOUT THE DELETE STATEMENT
• ABOUT THE UPDATE STATEMENT
• ABOUT TRANSACTIONS
• TRUNCATE TABLE
• COMPLEX TABLE REFERENCES

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