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Oracle 11g SQL Advanced course
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Overview
This course is designed to provide delegates practical experience in using some of the more advanced features of Oracle SQL. Additional datatypes and the use of advanced SQL functions and expressions are covered together with enhanced table handling features.
Audience
Anyone needing to use the more advanced features of SQL to improve their productivity in querying and updating databases.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, delegates will be able to interrogate a database using SQL commands.
Prerequisites
Attendance of the Oracle SQL Fundamentals course or equivalent knowledge.
Course Contents (2 days)
- RETRIEVE DATA USING SUBQUERIES
- ANY, ALL or SOME Operators
- 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 QUERIES
- Hierarchical data
- START WITH and CONNECT BY clauses
- The LEVEL pseudo-column
- Sequencing the output
- Eliminating nodes and branches
- ENHANCED GROUPING FEATURES
- Review of basic grouping concepts
- The ROLLUP and CUBE extensions
- The GROUPING SETS extension
- Using the GROUPING and GROUPING_ID
- MANAGE LARGE DATA SETS
- Multi-table Inserts
- Conditional and Unconditional Inserts
- Merging Data into a Table
- Table and View Based Merge
- A Sub Query Based Merge
- FLASHBACK TECHNOLOGY
- Flashback Query
- The AS Clause
- Flashback Table & Flashback Drop
- DATE, TIME AND TIMEZONE SUPPORT
- Date, Timestamp and Interval datatypes,
functions and literals - Handling dates and times
- Handling intervals
- Related NLS parameters
- Date, Timestamp and Interval datatypes,
- REGULAR EXPRESSION SUPPORT
- Regular Expression Notation
- Character matching
- Repetition operators
- Sub expression grouping
- Regular expression functions
- MANAGE OBJECTS WITH THE DATA DICTIONARY
- The Data Dictionary
- Useful Data Dictionary Tables
- Using the Data Dictionary
- MANAGE SCHEMA OBJECTS
- Column Operations
- Constraint Operations
- Creating and Dropping Indexes
- B-Tree Indexes
- Function Based Indexes
- Descending Indexes
- Creating and Using External Tables
- ACCESS CONTROL
- System Privileges and Roles
- Create Users & Alter User Details
- Grant and Revoke Object Privileges