dashDB for Tables, Views, Advanced Queries, and Analytic Constructs - eLearning - K04004G

Description

Note: Guided eLearning is a self-paced offering which includes web-based content for self-study and videos (including audio) that demonstrate activities.

If you are enrolling in a Self Paced Virtual Classroom or Web Based Training course, before you enroll, please review the Self-Paced Virtual Classes and Web-Based Training Classes on our Terms and Conditions page, as well as the system requirements, to ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements for this course. http://www.ibm.com/training/terms

1. Review of SQL
Selecting rows and columns
LIKE and the ESCAPE clause
Column functions
Summarizing group values
Activity
SQL challenges
2. OLAP functions
Super groups
GROUP BY ROLLUP
GROUP BY CUBE
Grouping function
GROUP BY grouping sets
OLAP functions for ranking
Activity
SQL challenges
3. Create and modify tables
Creating tables and adding columns
Activity
4. Constraints and indexes
Check Constraints
Indexes, unique, and primary keys
Referential integrity
Information integrity constraints
Activity
SQL challenges
5. Triggers
Triggers
More on triggers
Activity
SQL challenges
6. MERGE
MERGE
Activity
7. Views - basics
Views
Activity
8. Views - additional features
INSTEAD OF triggers
CHECK option
View merge
View materialization
Activity
SQL challenges
9. Joins
Join (original syntax)
Inner Join (newer syntax)
Outer joins
LEFT OUTER JOIN
RIGHT OUTER JOIN
FULL OUTER JOIN
Anti-join
Joins of more than two tables
Joins and local predicates
Activity
SQL Challenges
10. UNION and UNION ALL
UNION and UNION ALL
Activity
11. EXCEPT and INTERSECT
EXCEPT and INTERSECT
Activity
SQL challenges
12. CASE and CAST
Case
CAST
Activity
SQL challenges
13. Summary (Materialized Query) Tables and Temporary Tables
Summary tables and Materialized Query Tables (MQTS)
Temporary tables
Activity

Aim

Please refer to coures overview

Participant requirements

Students taking this course should have the following prerequisite skills:
Ability to write basic SQL SELECT statements, including a SELECT list, FROM clause, WHERE clause, GROUP BY clause, HAVING clause, and ORDER BY clause.
Ability to perform basic SQL INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations.
Ability to utilize basic SQL scalar functions, such as the DECIMAL function, and SQL column functions, such as SUM.
Ability to write basic non-correlated subqueries.
Students may obtain these skills by taking the dashDB SQL for Basic Queries and the dashDB for Functions, Grouping, Union, Subqueries, and Updates courses, or through equivalent experience.

Participant

Developers, Database Administrators, System Programmers