SQL for Any IT Professional

SQL for Any IT Professional

by Ryan Stephens
Released August 2022
Publisher(s): Pearson
ISBN: 0137633408

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Video description

15+ Hours of Video Instruction

Top-to-Bottom SQL Instruction in 15+ Hours of Video Training

Overview

Strong SQL skills are necessary to be competitive in the market today for IT jobs such as database administrator, programmer, application developer, database designer, and many others. SQL is the gold standard for all leading products today, including Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL.

SQL for Any IT Professional LiveLessons will equip you with the standard language used to communicate with todays relational databases. If you want to be effective in any job that requires work with databases to access and manipulate critical data, you need to be proficient in SQL. Databases in general and SQL specifically are often portrayed as difficult topics, but video instructor Ryan Stephens explains database principles in simple terms, showing you how to create organizational success and further your career in IT.

In this video training, Ryan Stephens teaches IT professionals and aspiring IT professionals the standard database language, SQL, or Structured Query Language. This LiveLessons takes a comprehensive approach, guiding viewers through an introduction to relational databases, database design, SQL, data management, and data mining from basics to advanced queries that produce output, results, and reports in the real world.

Topics Include
  • Lesson 1: Unmask the Simplicity of SQL
  • Lesson 2: Get to Know Your Database
  • Lesson 3: Understand the Relational Database Design Process
  • Lesson 4: Define Entities and Relationships
  • Lesson 5: Normalize Your Database
  • Lesson 6: Define Data Structures
  • Lesson 7: Create and Manage Physical Database Objects
  • Lesson 8: Manage Data and Transactions with SQL
  • Lesson 9: Query Your Database Effectively
  • Lesson 10: Join Tables in Queries
  • Lesson 11: Employ Functions to Create More Meaningful Queries
  • Lesson 12: Summarize and Group Data in a Query
  • Lesson 13: Create Advanced Queries to Get More out of Your Data
  • Lesson 14: Create Views to Expand the Capability of Your Database
  • Lesson 15: Manage Database Users and Security
  • Lesson 16: Take Your SQL Journey to the Next Level

Data files associated with this LiveLesson can be downloaded from https://www.informit.com/store/sql-for-any-it-professional-livelessons-video-training-9780137633470. Setup instructions for the sample database can be found in Lesson 2.3.

Skill Level
  • Beginner to Intermediate
What You Will Learn

Through effective slides, screencasting, and hands-on exercises, Ryan Stephens shows you how to design, build, manage, and query databases using SQL.

Learn how to
  • Design and build a relational database
  • Deploy a relational database using SQL
  • Manage and query data using SQL
Who Should Take This Course?
  • Database professionals such as DBAs, software developers, application developers, web developers and administrators, database architects, functional users working closely with data
  • Non-technical users and managers who want to learn more about how to effectively manage data and optimize the use of data in their organization
Course Requirements:
  • General understanding of what SQL is and/or in general how companies might use SQL
About Pearson Video Training:
Pearson publishes expert-led video tutorials covering a wide selection of technology topics designed to teach you the skills you need to succeed. These professional and personal technology videos feature world-leading author instructors published by your trusted technology brands: Addison-Wesley, Cisco Press, Pearson IT Certification, Sams, and Que. Topics include IT Certification, Network Security, Cisco Technology, Programming, Web Development, Mobile Development, and more. Learn more about Pearson Video training at http://www.informit.com/video.

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
    1. SQL for Any IT Professional: Introduction
  2. Lesson 1: Unmask the Simplicity of SQL
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 1.1 Understand the Relational Database and SQL
    3. 1.2 Explore the SQL language
  3. Lesson 2: Get to Know Your Database
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 2.1 Discover your sample database
    3. 2.2 Get to know your data via manual exploration
    4. 2.3 Set up your sample database
  4. Lesson 3: Understand the Relational Database Design Process
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 3.1 Relate database design to SQL
    3. 3.2 Understand the database life cycle
    4. 3.3 Know your data
    5. 3.4 Gather requirements
    6. 3.5 Model your data
  5. Lesson 4: Define Entities and Relationships
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 4.1 Understand entities, attributes, and relationships
    3. 4.2 Understand referential integrity
    4. 4.3 Define entities
    5. 4.4 Define attributes
    6. 4.5 Define relationships
    7. 4.6 Employ referential integrity by identifying primary and foreign keys
    8. 4.7 Create an entity relationship diagram
  6. Lesson 5: Normalize Your Database
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 5.1 Understand normalization
    3. 5.2 Explore the most common normal forms
    4. 5.3 Apply normalization to your database
  7. Lesson 6: Define Data Structures
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 6.1 Review your data to this point
    3. 6.2 Explore various datatypes in SQL
    4. 6.3 Fully define your data
  8. Lesson 7: Create and Manage Physical Database Objects
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 7.1 Review of the logical database design
    3. 7.2 Create and manage tables based on your design
    4. 7.3 Enforce database rules with constraints
    5. 7.4 Define other common database objects
  9. Lesson 8: Manage Data and Transactions with SQL
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 8.1 Populate tables with data
    3. 8.2 Update existing data
    4. 8.3 Delete data
    5. 8.4 Manage transactions
    6. 8.5 Create database objects from other objects
  10. Lesson 9: Query Your Database Effectively
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 9.1 Query your database without SQL
    3. 9.2 Explore the fundamentals of a SQL Query
    4. 9.3 Use operators in queries
  11. Lesson 10: Join Tables in Queries
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 10.1 Select data from multiple tables
    3. 10.2 Join tables in a query
    4. 10.3 Bring it together with your data
  12. Lesson 11: Employ Functions to Create More Meaningful Queries
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 11.1 Restructure the appearance of data: character functions
    3. 11.2 Understand dates and times
    4. 11.3 Skim the surface of aggregate functions
  13. Lesson 12: Summarize and Group Data in a Query
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 12.1 Understand the need to group data
    3. 12.2 Use GROUP BY in queries
    4. 12.3 Place criteria on groups in queries
    5. 12.4 Use HAVING in queries
    6. 12.5 Group and summarize your data
  14. Lesson 13: Create Advanced Queries to Get More out of Your Data
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 13.1 Understand subqueries
    3. 13.2 Create subqueries to drill down further
    4. 13.3 Explore the concept of compound queries
    5. 13.4 Use compound queries to merge data sets
  15. Lesson 14: Create Views to Expand the Capability of Your Database
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 14.1 Understand virtual database objects
    3. 14.2 Create and drop views
    4. 14.3 Update data through a view
    5. 14.4 Understand performance benefits and drawbacks of views
    6. 14.5 Understand and define synonyms
    7. 14.6 Integrate views with any query
  16. Lesson 15: Manage Database Users and Security
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 15.1 Understand database administration versus schema management
    3. 15.2 Use the System Catalog as a resource
    4. 15.3 Manage users and privileges
    5. 15.4 Use roles to control access and protect your data
    6. 15.5 Manage a changing database
  17. Lesson 16: Take Your SQL Journey to the Next Level
    1. Learning objectives
    2. 16.1 Recap SQL basics
    3. 16.2 Explore new data integrated into our BIRDS database
    4. 16.3 Walk through SQL bonus examples
    5. 16.4 Take this bonus hands-on workshop for the road
  18. Summary
    1. SQL for Any IT Professional: Summary

Product information

  • Title: SQL for Any IT Professional
  • Author(s): Ryan Stephens
  • Release date: August 2022
  • Publisher(s): Pearson
  • ISBN: 0137633408