SQL Querying: Fundamentals

Organizations typically store their most critical information—the information used to manage day-to-day operations—within a database. The ability to retrieve and analyze this information is essential to the functioning of the organization. Structured Query Language (SQL) is the primary language used to accomplish such tasks. Essentially, SQL is the language you use to interact with a database. The ability to write SQL is an essential job skill for those who need to manage large volumes of data, produce reports, mine data, or combine data from multiple sources. Even if someone else on your team creates reports for you, having a fundamental understanding of SQL querying will help you ask the right questions and know what you're looking for in your data analysis tools. This course, SQL Querying: Fundamentals, will teach you to use SQL as a tool to retrieve the information you need from databases. This course is intended for individuals with basic computer skills, familiar with concepts related to database structure and terminology, who want to use SQL to query databases. In this course, you will: connect to the SQL Server database and execute a simple query, include a search condition in a simple query, use various functions to perform calculations on data, organize the data obtained from a query before it is displayed onscreen, retrieve data from multiple tables, and export the results of a query. This course requires that you have Microsoft SQL Server Express and Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) installed on a Windows PC. The course setup instructions provided in the first module of the course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.