| INTRODUCTION
Describing the Life Cycle Development Phases
Defining a Relational Database
Discussing the Theoretical, Conceptual, and Physical Aspects of a Relational
Database
Describing How a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) Is Used
to Manage a Relational Database
Describing How SQL Is Used in the Oracle Product Set
WRITING A BASIC SQL STATEMENT
Describing the SQL Select Capabilities
Executing a Basic Select Statement with the Mandatory Clauses
Differentiating Between SQL and iSQL*Plus Commands
RESTRICTING AND SORTING DATA
Limiting the Rows Retrieved by a Query
Sorting the Rows Retrieved by a Query
SINGLE ROW FUNCTIONS
Describing Various Types of Functions Available in SQL
Using a Variety of Character, Number, and Date Functions in SELECT Statements
Explaining What the Conversion Functions Are and How They Are Used Using
Control Statements
DISPLAYING DATA FROM MULTIPLE TABLES
Writing SELECT Statements to Access Data from More Than One Table
Describing the Cartesian Product
Describing and Using the Different Types of Joins
Writing Joins Using the Tips Provided
AGGREGATING DATA BY USING GROUP FUNCTIONS
Identifying the Different Group Functions Available
Explaining the Use of Group Functions
Grouping Data by Using the GROUP BY Clause
PRODUCING READABLE OUTPUT WITH ISQL*PLUS
Producing Queries That Require an Input Variable
Customizing the iSQL*Plus Environment
Producing More Readable Output
CREATING AND MANAGING TABLES
Describing the Main Database Objects
Creating Tables
Describing the Oracle Data Types
Altering Table Definitions
Dropping, Renaming, and Truncating Tables
MANIPULATING DATA
Describing Each Data Manipulation Language (DML) Command
Inserting Rows into a Table
Updating Rows in a Table
Deleting Rows from a Table
Merging Rows into a Table
Controlling Transactions
Describing Transaction Processing
Describing Read Consistency and Implicit and Explicit Locking
INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS
Describing Constraints
Creating and Maintaining Constraints |
CREATING VIEWS
Describing Views and Their Uses
Creating a View
Retrieving Data by Means of a View
Inserting, Updating and Deleting Data Through Views
Dropping Views
Altering the Definition of a View
Inline Views
Top ‘N’ Analysis
OTHER DATABASE OBJECTS
Creating, Maintaining, and Using Sequences
Creating and Maintaining Indexes
Creating Private and Public Synonyms
SQL WORKSHOP
Applying Techniques Learned in this Course
Preparing for Future Oracle Courses
CONTROLLING USER ACCESS
Understanding the Concepts of Users, Roles and Privelages
Granting and Revoking Object Privileges
Creating Roles and Granting Priviliges to Roles
Creating Synonyms for Ease of Table Access
USING SET OPERATORS
Describing the Set Operators
Obeying the Set Operators Rules and Guidelines
Using a Set Operator to Combine Multiple Queries into a Single Subquery
Controlling the Order of Rows Returned
ORACLE 9i DATETIME FUNCTIONS
Using DATETIME Functions
Using the NVL2 Function to Handle NULL Values
ENHANCEMENTS TO THE GROUP BY CLAUSE
Using ROLLUP as an Extension to the GROUP BY Clause to Produce Subtotal
Values
Using CUBE as an Extension to the GROUP BY Clause to Produce Cross-Tabulation
Values
Using the GROUPING Function to Identify the Row Values Created by ROLLUP
or CUBE Operators
Using GROUPING SETS to Produce a Single Result Set That Is Equivalent
to a UNION ALL Approach
Using the WITH Clause
ADVANCED SUBQUERIES
Multiple-Column Subqueries
Writing a Subquery in the FROM Clause
Writing and describing Correlated Subquery
Using EXISTS and NOT EXISTS Operators
Updating and Deleting Rows Using Correlated Subqueries
Using Scalar Subqueries in SQL
HIERARCHICAL RETRIEVAL
Discussing the Benefits of the Hierarchical Query
Ordering the Rows Retrieved by a Query in a Hierarchical Manner
Formatting Hierarchical Data so That It Is Easy to Read
Excluding Branches from the Tree Structure
ORACLE 9i EXTENSIONS TO DML AND DDL STATEMENTS
Discussing Multitable Inserts
Creating and Using External Tables
Naming the Index and Using the CREATE INDEX Command at the Time of Creating
Primary Key Constraint |
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