WA1373 Oracle Database 10g: Introduction to SQL Course Outline Part I 1. RELATIONAL DATABASES & SQL ABOUT RELATIONAL DATABASES ELEMENTS OF SQL 2. USING SQL*PLUS ABOUT SQL*PLUS USING THE MS WINDOWS SQL*PLUS TOOL USING THE ISQL*PLUS WEB TOOL ENTERING COMMANDS & SYNTAX 3. BUILDING A SELECT STATEMENT ABOUT THE SELECT STATEMENT SELECTING COLUMNS USING ALIAS NAMES 4. BUILDING A WHERE CLAUSE ABOUT LOGICAL OPERATORS EQUALITY OPERATOR BOOLEAN OPERATORS NULL & BETWEEN OPERATORS FINDING TEXT STRINGS IN OPERATOR 5. ORDERING THE RESULT TABLE ABOUT THE ORDER BY CLAUSE MULTIPLE COLUMN SORTS SPECIFYING THE SORT SEQUENCE ABOUT NULL VALUES WITHIN SORTS USING COLUMN ALIASES 6. PSEUDO COLUMNS & FUNCTIONS ABOUT PSEUDO COLUMNS & FUNCTIONS USING ROWID USING ROWNUM USING THE FUNCTIONS USING THE DUAL TABLE SESSIONTIMEZONE FUNCTION 7. JOINING TABLES ABOUT JOINS INNER JOIN REFLEXIVE JOIN NON-KEY JOIN OUTER JOIN 8. USING SET OPERATORS ABOUT THE SET OPERATORS SET OPERATOR EXAMPLES 9. SUMMARY FUNCTIONS ABOUT SUMMARY FUNCTIONS SUMMARY FUNCTIONS WITH DISTINCT 10. USING SUBQUERIES ABOUT SUBQUERIES STANDARD SUBQUERIES CORRELATED SUBQUERIES 11. CREATING & SELECTING GROUPS ABOUT SUMMARY GROUPS FINDING GROUPS WITHIN THE BASE TABLES SELECTING DATA FROM THE BASE TABLES SELECTING GROUPS FROM THE RESULT TABLE 12. SQL*PLUS COMMANDS ABOUT SQL*PLUS COMMANDS MORE ABOUT SCRIPT FILES INVOKING OPERATING SYSTEM COMMANDS SAVING SESSION OUTPUT 13. BUILD SIMPLE SQL*PLUS REPORTS ABOUT THE SQL*PLUS REPORT FEATURES SESSION OUTPUT WITH SET FORMAT COLUMN OUTPUT WITH COLUMN DEFINING REPORT BREAKS WITH BREAK PRODUCE SUBTOTALS WITH COMPUTE 14. SQL DATA DEFINITION LANGUAGE ABOUT SQL DDL CREATE TABLE STATEMENT ALTER TABLE STATEMENT DROP TABLE STATEMENT SUPPORTIVE STATEMENTS 15. SQL DATA MANIPULATION LANGUAGE ABOUT SQL DML ABOUT THE INSERT STATEMENT ABOUT THE DELETE STATEMENT ABOUT THE UPDATE STATEMENT ABOUT TRANSACTIONS TRUNCATE TABLE COMPLEX TABLE REFERENCES Part II 1. SQL99 JOIN TECHNIQUES CROSS JOINS NATURAL JOINS INNER JOINS OUTER JOINS ANTI JOINS USING NAMED SUBQUERIES 2. ENHANCING GROUPS WITH ROLLUP & CUBE 3. USING THE CASE EXPRESSION 4. SQL FUNCTIONS: CHARACTER WHAT ARE THE SQL FUNCTIONS? CHARACTER FUNCTIONS About GREATEST(), LEAST() 5. SQL FUNCTIONS: NUMERIC 6. SQL FUNCTIONS: DATE DATE FORMAT FUNCTIONS DATE ARITHMETIC FUNCTIONS 7. DATABASE OBJECTS: RELATIONAL VIEWS ABOUT RELATIONAL VIEWS UPDATING VIEW DATA MAINTAINING VIEW DEFINITIONS ALTER VIEW DROP VIEW 8. DATABASE OBJECTS: DATA DICTIONARY STORAGE USER_UPDATABLE_COLUMNS UNDERSTANDING THE DATA DICTIONARY STRUCTURE 9. DATABASE OBJECTS: INDEXES ABOUT INDEXES USE B-TREE INDEXES 10. DATABASE OBJECTS: OTHER OBJECTS CREATING AN APPLICATION SCHEMA MORE ABOUT CREATING TABLES DEFINING SEQUENCES ALTER SEQUENCE & DROP SEQUENCE ALTER SEQUENCE DROP SEQUENCE ABOUT SYNONYMS DROP SYNONYM CREATE SCHEMA AUTHORIZATION 11. DATABASE OBJECTS: SECURITY USER ID PASSWORDS OBJECT SECURITY 12. DATA INTEGRITY USING CONSTRAINTS NOT NULL CONSTRAINT CHECK CONSTRAINT UNIQUE CONSTRAINT PRIMARY KEY CONSTRAINT REFERENCES CONSTRAINT 13. MANAGING CONSTRAINT DEFINITIONS MANAGING CONSTRAINTS RENAMING & DROPPING CONSTRAINTS ENABLING & DISABLING CONSTRAINTS DEFERRED ENFORCEMENT SET CONSTRAINTS HANDLING CONSTRAINT EXCEPTIONS DATA DICTIONARY STORAGE 14. OPTIONAL – ADVANCED SQL*PLUS REPORTS BREAK COMPUTE COLUMN TTITLE & BTITLE 15. OPTIONAL – BUILDING SQL*PLUS SCRIPTS USING SQL*PLUS VARIABLES DEFINE & UNDEFINE ACCEPT PROMPT PAUSE