This Oracle 11g courseware training guide book will prepare students for the Oracle certification exams (OCP). This course book can be used as a user guide tutorial for ongoing reference long after the course is completed.
This training course reference book is a common starting point in the Oracle database curriculum for administrators, developers and business users.
Oracle Training Course Objectives
The objective of this course is to provide an introduction to the SQL database language within the context of an Oracle database, based upon the latest features available. The primary objective of this course is to consider advanced subjects and techniques pertaining to the SQL database language, based upon the latest features available with the Oracle release. Even professionals experienced in other implementations of the industry-standard SQL language will benefit from the advanced and Oracle-specific features of SQL discussed in this course.
Oracle Training Audience
The target audience for this training course is all Oracle professionals, both business and systems professionals, who wish to pass the Oracle certification exams and need a "how to" guide to acquire the knowledge of SQL. Further, this course is well suited for non-Oracle professionals already experienced in the SQL but who wish to become acquainted with the unique and advanced features of Oracle SQL. Among the specific groups for whom this course will be helpful are application developers and database administrators.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites exist for this course. However, one or more of the following courses are suggested prerequisites:
ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURES FOR EXECUTIVES
RELATIONAL DATABASE DESIGN & DATA MODELING
Certification Examination
To prepare for the "Exam 1Z0-047: Oracle Database: SQL Certified Expert" certification, one must complete this course as well as the course ORACLE DATABASE 11G: NEW & ADVANCED FEATURES FOR DEVELOPERS.
Oracle Training Course duration
5 Days
Oracle Training Course outline
Volume 1
RELATIONAL DATABASES & SQL
ABOUT RELATIONAL DATABASES
ELEMENTS OF SQL
CHOOSING A SQL & PL/SQL INTERFACE
ABOUT DATABASE CONNECTIONS
ABOUT BIND VARIABLES
USING SQL DEVELOPER
USING SQL*PLUS
USING APPLICATION EXPRESS
BUILDING A SELECT STATEMENT
ABOUT THE SELECT STATEMENT
USING ALIAS NAMES
RESTRICTING DATA WITH THE WHERE CLAUSE
ABOUT LOGICAL OPERATORS
EQUALITY OPERATOR
BOOLEAN OPERATORS
NULL & BETWEEN OPERATORS
IS [NOT] NULL Operator
[NOT] BETWEEN Operator
FINDING TEXT STRINGS
[NOT] LIKE Operator
REGEXP_LIKE()
IN OPERATOR
SORTING DATA WITH THE ORDER BY CLAUSE
ABOUT THE ORDER BY CLAUSE
MULTIPLE COLUMN SORTS
SPECIFYING THE SORT SEQUENCE
ABOUT NULL VALUES WITHIN SORTS
USING COLUMN ALIASES
PSEUDO COLUMNS & FUNCTIONS
USING ROWID
USING ROWNUM
USING THE FUNCTIONS
SYSDATE
USER & UID
USING THE DUAL TABLE
SESSIONTIMEZONE FUNCTION
JOINING TABLES
ABOUT JOINS
INNER JOIN
REFLEXIVE JOIN
NON-KEY JOIN
OUTER JOIN
USING THE SET OPERATORS
ABOUT THE SET OPERATORS
SET OPERATOR EXAMPLES
SUMMARY FUNCTIONS
ABOUT SUMMARY FUNCTIONS
SUMMARY FUNCTIONS WITH DISTINCT
USING SUB-QUERIES
ABOUT SUB-QUERIES
STANDARD SUB-QUERIES
CORRELATED SUB-QUERIES
AGGREGATING DATA WITHIN GROUPS
ABOUT SUMMARY GROUPS
FINDING GROUPS WITHIN THE BASE TABLES
SELECTING DATA FROM THE BASE TABLES
SELECTING GROUPS FROM THE RESULT TABLE
BUILD SIMPLE SQL*PLUS REPORTS
FORMAT COLUMN OUTPUT WITH COLUMN
DEFINING REPORT BREAKS WITH BREAK
PRODUCE SUBTOTALS WITH COMPUTE
USE DATA DEFINITION LANGUAGE TO CREATE & MANAGE TABLES
CREATE TABLE STATEMENT
NOT NULL
DEFAULT
ALTER TABLE STATEMENT
DROP TABLE STATEMENT
SUPPORTIVE STATEMENTS
DESCRIBE
RENAME
USE DATA MANIPULATION LANGUAGE TO MANIPULATE DATA
ABOUT THE INSERT STATEMENT
ABOUT THE DELETE STATEMENT
ABOUT THE UPDATE STATEMENT
ABOUT TRANSACTIONS
ROLLBACK
COMMIT
SAVEPOINT
SET TRANSACTION
TRUNCATE TABLE
COMPLEX TABLE REFERENCES
APPENDIX A
REFERENCE INFORMATION
SQL DDL STATEMENT REFERENCE
SQL DML STATEMENT REFERENCE
SQL TRANSACTION CONTROL STATEMENT REFERENCE
SQL OPERATORS REFERENCE
Volume 2
SQL99 JOIN TECHNIQUES
CROSS JOINS
NATURAL JOINS
INNER JOINS
OUTER JOINS
ANTI JOINS
USING NAMED SUBQUERIES
ENHANCING GROUPS WITH ROLLUP & CUBE
USING ROLLUP
USING CUBE
USING THE CASE EXPRESSION SQL FUNCTIONS: CHARACTER
STRING FORMATTING FUNCTIONS
ASCII CODES FUNCTIONS
PAD & TRIM FUNCTIONS
STRING MANIPULATION FUNCTIONS
STRING COMPARISON FUNCTIONS
PHONETIC SEARCH FUNCTIONS
SQL FUNCTIONS: NUMERIC
ABOUT THE NUMERIC FUNCTIONS
NULL VALUE FUNCTIONS
SQL FUNCTIONS: DATE
DATE FORMAT FUNCTIONS
DATE ARITHMETIC FUNCTIONS
DATABASE OBJECTS: RELATIONAL VIEWS
ABOUT DATABASE OBJECTS
ABOUT RELATIONAL VIEWS
UPDATING VIEW DATA
MAINTAINING VIEW DEFINITIONS
ALTER VIEW
DROP VIEW
DATABASE OBJECTS: DATA DICTIONARY STORAGE
ABOUT THE DATA DICTIONARY
OBJECT-SPECIFIC DICTIONARY VIEWS
USER_UPDATABLE_COLUMNS
UNDERSTANDING THE DATA DICTIONARY STRUCTURE
DATABASE OBJECTS: INDEXES
ABOUT INDEXES
USE B-TREE INDEXES
DATABASE OBJECTS: OTHER OBJECTS
MORE ABOUT CREATING TABLES
ABOUT SEQUENCES
ALTER SEQUENCE & DROP SEQUENCE
ALTER SEQUENCE
DROP SEQUENCE
ABOUT SYNONYMS
DROP SYNONYM
CREATE SCHEMA AUTHORIZATION
DATABASE OBJECTS: SECURITY
USER PASSWORDS
OBJECT SECURITY
DATA INTEGRITY USING CONSTRAINTS
ABOUT CONSTRAINTS
NOT NULL CONSTRAINT
CHECK CONSTRAINT
UNIQUE CONSTRAINT
PRIMARY KEY CONSTRAINT
REFERENCES CONSTRAINT
DEFINING CONSTRAINTS ON EXISTING TABLES
MANAGING CONSTRAINT DEFINITIONS
RENAMING & DROPPING CONSTRAINTS
ENABLING & DISABLING CONSTRAINTS
DEFERRED ENFORCEMENT
SET CONSTRAINTS
HANDLING CONSTRAINT EXCEPTIONS
CONSTRAINTS WITH VIEWS
DATA DICTIONARY STORAGE
ADVANCED SQL*PLUS REPORTS
BREAK
COMPUTE
COLUMN
TTITLE & BTITLE
OPTIONAL - ADVANCED SQL*PLUS REPORTS
REPORT-1
REPORT-2
SOLUTIONS
REPORT-1
REPORT-2
OPTIONAL - BUILDING SQL*PLUS SCRIPTS
USING SQL*PLUS VARIABLES
DEFINE & UNDEFINE
ACCEPT
PROMPT
PAUSE
OPTIONAL - SQL*PLUS SESSION CONTROL
CONTROLLING SYSTEM VARIABLES
SET
SHOW
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