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Advanced SQL Queries in Oracle and SQL Server

by Scott Hecht

This course details recent additions to the standard SQL language and includes topics such as Analytic Functions and Extensions to GROUP BY, to name a few.

What you'll learn

This Oracle advanced SQL course provides an overview of the recent additions to the SQL language that have been added over the last few years, but that may have slipped under your radar.

We will describe;

  • Analytic Functions
  • Extensions to GROUP BY
  • The WITH Clause (Oracle's Subquery Factoring Clause/SQL Server's Common Table Expressions)
  • The PIVOT and UNPIVOT Features
  • The MERGE Statement
  • And, finally, the PARTITION BY/RIGHT OUTER JOIN syntax.
  • If you aren't familiar with Oracle or Oracle databases, you may want to take this course beforehand.

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Course FAQ

What are advanced SQL queries used for?

These advanced queries will help you to manipulate, clean, and analyze your data more effieiencly than ever before.

Who is this advanced SQL course for?

This course is ideal for advanced Oracle and SQL users who want to learn about all the newest functionality. Beginners may be more interested in our Oracle Database Fundamentals course.

What advanced SQL queries will I learn in this course?

This course will describe Analytics Functions, GROUP BY, WITH, PIVOT and UNPIVOT, MERGE, and many more.

What software is required for this advanced SQL course?

You will want to have the latest version of Oracle Database and a client software such as Toad or the Oracle SQL developer tool. You will also want to have the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server Database and its client tool - SQL Servers Management Studio.

About the author

Scott is a statistical computer programmer specializing in SAS and SQL, but has learned many other languages such as Java, Android, C#, C, PL/SQL, R, and SPSS to name a few. His personal website, sheepsqueezers.com, features documents and presentations on a variety of topics he has learned over the years. Scott is also the author of "Android from A to D," which is his take on how a newbie should be taught Android programming, as well as "Poor Man's Data Dictionary," which describes how to quickl... more

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