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The goal of this course is to provide students with the technical skills required to write basic Transact-SQL queries for Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000.

This course is intended for SQL Server database administrators, implementers, system engineers, and developers who are responsible for writing queries.

After completing the course, students will be able to:

• Describe the uses of and ways to execute the Transact-SQL language.
• Use querying tools.
• Write SELECT queries to retrieve data.
• Group and summarize data by using Transact-SQL.
• Join data from multiple tables.
• Write queries that retrieve and modify data by using subqueries.
• Modify data in tables.
• Query text fields with full-text search.
• Describe how to create programming objects.

This course will help the student prepare for the following Microsoft Certified Professional exam:

• Exam 70-229, Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Experience using a Microsoft Windows® operating system.
• An understanding of basic relational database concepts, including:
  • Logical and physical database design.
  • Data integrity concepts.
  • Relationships between tables and columns (primary key and foreign key, one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many).
  • How data is stored in tables (rows and columns).
• Familiarity with the role of the database administrator
• The course materials, lectures, and lab exercises are in English. To benefit fully from our instruction, students need an understanding of the English language and completion of the prerequisites.

The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook and other necessary materials for this class. The following software is provided in the student kit:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Enterprise Edition Evaluation Copy

Module 1: Introduction to Transact-SQL

The following topics are covered in this module:

• The Transact-SQL Programming Language
• Types of Transact-SQL Statements
• Transact-SQL Syntax Elements
• Using SQL Server Books Online

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Differentiate between Transact-SQL and ANSI-SQL.
• Describe the basic types of Transact-SQL.
• Describe the syntax elements of Transact-SQL.