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Create, Populate, and Query a Table in Azure SQL Database

Hone your SQL skills by executing a few Data Definition Language (DDL) statements, and a few Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements. At the end of the lab, you will have experimented with running SQL statements in a live Azure environment, with the benefit of immediate feedback if you’ve made any errors in code or syntax order. All work takes place in the Azure portal.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Dec 19, 2025
Duration
30m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Understand how to give yourself access to an Azure SQL Database
    • Using the Azure portal, identify a pre-provisioned Azure SQL server, along with the one database deployed to that server.
    • Give your own IP address access to the server.
    • Use the query editor to log into the database deployed on the server (see the Project Guide for instructions on retrieving the login password).
  2. Challenge

    Demonstrate how to create a database table using SQL
    • Create a customer table.
    • Include an ID column as the primary key, and create five additional columns, at least one of which is not a string data type.
  3. Challenge

    Demonstrate how to populate and query a database table using SQL
    • Insert at least five rows into the customer table.
    • Write a SQL statement that returns all columns and all rows of the customer table.
    • Write a SQL statement that returns only two columns and only some of the rows in the customer table.
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