Course description
The Oracle SQL Fundamentals course is designed to give delegates practical experience in writing Oracle SQL statements and scripts. A wide range of SQL functions and data manipulation statements are introduced.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Versions supported 12cR2, 18c and 19c.
Who will the Course Benefit?Anyone who needs to use and understand Oracle SQL to query and update data in an Oracle database.
Course ObjectivesTo provide the skills needed to query and update data held in an Oracle Relational Database.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
There are no formal pre-requisites for the Oracle SQL Fundamentals course, although an understanding of databases and exposure to information technology in general would be useful. This knowledge can be gained by attendance on the Relational Databases & Data Modelling Overview course.
Training Course Content
Oracle SQL Fundamentals Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- What is an Oracle Database
- Relational Database Structures
- Tables, Rows and Columns
- Indexes, Primary Keys and Foreign Keys
- Data Types
- The Data Dictionary
- What is SQL*Plus
- Getting Started
- Entering and Executing SQL Statements
- The SQL*Plus Command Line History
- Editing SQL Statements
- The login.sql File
- Creating, Editing and Executing SQL Files
- The SQLcl Utility
- What is Oracle SQL Developer
- Starting SQL Developer
- Configure a Connection
- Navigation Tabs
- SQL Worksheet
- Query Builder
- The SELECT Statement
- The SELECT and FROM Clauses
- Conditions and the WHERE Clause
- Other Conditional Operators
- Logical Operators
- The ORDER BY Clause
- Column Aliases
- Arithmetic Expressions
- Precedence of Operators
- Markup CSV
- Overview of Built In Aggregate Functions
- The GROUP BY Clause
- The HAVING Clause
- Overview of Table Joins
- Inner Joins
- Table Aliases
- Outer Joins
- Self Joins
- ANSI Standard Joins
- Overview of Subqueries
- Basic Subqueries
- Set Operators
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 8: NUMERIC, CHARACTER AND DATE FUNCTIONS- Function Types
- Using the Table dual to try out Functions
- Numeric Functions
- Character Functions
- String Concatenation
- Date Arithmetic and Date Functions
- Conversion Functions
- The NVL and NVL2 Functions
- The DECODE Function
- CASE Expressions
- The COALESCE and NULLIF Functions
- Command Line Substitution Parameters
- The Accept Command
- The Define and Undefine Commands
- Subqueries Usage
- In-Line Views
- Top-N Queries
- Subqueries with Joins
- Multi Column Subqueries
- Correlated Subqueries
- Subquery Rules
- Using the ANY, ALL and SOME Operators
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 12: MANAGING DATA- Inserting Rows
- Updating Rows
- Deleting Rows
- Verifying Updates
- Transaction Control
- Commit and Rollback
- Savepoints
- Commits and Constraints
- Amending Data in SQL Developer
- Creating Tables
- Specifying Constraints
- Altering Tables, Columns and Constraints
- Dropping Tables, Columns and Constraints
- Recovering Dropped Tables
- Copying Tables
- Creating Indexes
- Dropping Indexes
- Listing Indexes
- Creating and Using Views
- Dropping Views
- Listing Views
- Create a Sequence
- View Sequence Details
- Create a Synonym
- List Synonyms
Course Contents - DAY 4
Session 16: RETRIEVE DATA USING SUBQUERIES- Correlated Subqueries
- In-Line Views
- The Exists Operator
- The WITH Clause
- Multi-Column Subqueries
- Insert and Update Using a Query
- Correlated Update and Delete
- Hierarchical data
- The START WITH and CONNECT BY clauses
- The LEVEL pseudo-column
- Sequencing the output
- Eliminating nodes and branches
- Review of basic grouping concepts
- The ROLLUP and CUBE extensions
- The GROUPING SETS extension
- Using the GROUPING and GROUPING_ID functions
- Ranking functions
- The NTILE and WIDTH_BUCKET functions
- Analytic Aggregate functions
- The FIRST and LAST Value functions
- The LEAG and LAG Functions
- The LISTAGG Function
- Multi-table Inserts
- Conditional and Unconditional Inserts
- Merging Data into a Table
- Table and View Based Merge
- A Sub Query Based Merge
Course Contents - DAY 5
Session 21: FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGY- Flashback Query
- The AS Clause
- Flashback Table
- Flashback Drop
- Regular Expression Notation
- Character matching
- Repetition operators
- Sub expression grouping
- Regular expression functions
- Virtual columns
- Creating and Using External Tables
- Date, Timestamp and Interval datatypes
- Handling dates and times
- Handling intervals
- Date, timestamp and interval functions and literals
- Related NLS parameters
- System Privileges and Roles
- Create Users
- Alter User Details
- Grant and Revoke Object Privileges
- The Data Dictionary
- Useful Data Dictionary Tables
- Using the Data Dictionary
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