Oracle Database 12c: SQL I - Introduction
Oracle Training Overview
Learning the SQL language is one of the most basic tasks required for the use of a relational database.
SQL proficiency is essential for business users, database developers, database administrators and any
other database professional. This course introduces the basics of the SQL language and the Oracle
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). One will become acquainted with the differences
in the working environment between a traditional on-premise database installation and the Oracle
database service cloud-computing platform.
Since SQL is an industry standard language, many of the topics presented and many of the skills you
will acquire will be applicable to other database platforms, such as Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, the
open-source databases MySQL and PostgreSQL, and others.
This course takes a unique approach to SQL training in that it incorporates data modeling theory,
relational database theory, graphical depictions of theoretical concepts and numerous examples of
actual SQL syntax into one learning vehicle.
Oracle Training 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:
Oracle Training Certification
This course and the subsequent ones within this series consider subjects applicable to certification as an Oracle Database Certified SQL Expert. The topics considered are included within "Exam 1Z0-047: Oracle Database: SQL Certified Expert".
Oracle Training Objectives
The first portion of this course considers the logical models upon which a relational database is based and the various configurations and environments in which you may work with the Oracle database. The next segment focuses on the actual SQL syntax for writing database queries. You will begin with the simplest of queries and then proceed onto moderately complex query scenarios. Finally, this course covers the DDL, DML and transaction control portions of the SQL language that allow one to create, maintain and manipulate application database objects and application data.
Course duration
3 Days
Oracle Training Course outline
RELATIONAL DATABASES & DATA MODELS
- ABOUT DATA MODELS
- ABOUT THE RELATIONAL MODEL
- THE ELECTRONICS DATA MODEL
- ABOUT THE RELATIONAL DBMS
- CONSIDERING AVAILABLE TOOLS
- SELECTING THE APPROPRIATE TOOL
- ORACLE NET DATABASE CONNECTIONS
- ORACLE PAAS DATABASE CONNECTIONS
- SETUP SQL DEVELOPER
- SETUP SQL*PLUS
- SETUP JDEVELOPER
- ABOUT BIND & SUBSTITUTION VARIABLES
- USING SQL DEVELOPER
- USING SQL*PLUS
- ABOUT THE SQL LANGUAGE
- CHARACTERISTICS OF SQL
- INTRODUCING SQL USING SELECT
- SQL RULES
- THE SELECT STATEMENT
- DISTINCT / UNIQUE Keyword
- USING ALIAS NAMES
- ABOUT LOGICAL OPERATORS
- EQUALITY OPERATOR
- BOOLEAN OPERATORS
- REGEXP_LIKE()
- IN OPERATOR
- ABOUT THE ORDER BY CLAUSE
- MULTIPLE COLUMN SORTS
- SPECIFY THE SORT SEQUENCE
- ABOUT NULL VALUES WITHIN SORTS
- USING COLUMN ALIASES
- ROWID PSEUDO COLUMN
- ORA_ROWSCN PSEUDO COLUMN
- ROWNUM PSEUDO COLUMN
- ABOUT THE BUILT-IN FUNCTIONS
- SYSDATE
- USER & UID
- SESSIONTIMEZONE Function
- USING THE DUAL TABLE
- ROW LIMITING & TOP-N QUERIES
- FETCH FIRST x ROWS ONLY Clause
- OFFSET x ROWS Clause
- FETCH ... PERCENT Clause
- The WITH TIES Option
- ABOUT JOINS
- INNER JOIN
- REFLEXIVE JOIN
- NON-KEY JOIN
- OUTER JOIN
- ABOUT THE SET OPERATORS
- SQL SET OPERATOR EXAMPLES
- UNION Example
- INTERSECT Example
- MINUS Example
- UNION ALL
USING SUB-QUERIES
- FINDING DATA WITH SUB-QUERIES
- The EXISTS Operator
- ABOUT SUMMARY GROUPS
- FIND GROUPS WITHIN THE TABLES
- SELECT DATA FROM THE BASE TABLES
- SELECT GROUPS FROM THE RESULTS
- CREATE TABLE STATEMENT
- COLUMN DATA TYPES
- NOT NULL
- DEFAULT
- DESCRIBE
- ALTER TABLE STATEMENT
- DROP TABLE STATEMENT
- TABLE DDL USING SQL DEVELOPER
- ALTER USER STATEMENT
- ALTER SESSION STATEMENT
- NLS_LANGUAGE
- NLS_DATE
- THE INSERT STATEMENT
- THE DELETE STATEMENT
- THE UPDATE STATEMENT
- ABOUT TRANSACTIONS
- TRANSACTION ROLLBACK
- TRANSACTION COMMIT
- TRANSACTION SAVEPOINT
- THE SET TRANSACTION STATEMENT
- SET TRANSACTION READ ONLY Statement Rules
