Training offering

SQL Workshop

Description

This course provides an introduction to the SQL language and applies to the entire DB2 Family and Informix.

This course is appropriate for customers working in all DB2 environments, that is, z/OS, VM/VSE, iSeries, Linux, UNIX and Windows. It is also appropriate for customers working in an Informix environment.

Objectives

On completion of this course, you should be able to:

 Code SQL statements to retrieve data from a DB2 table, including the SELECT, FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY, HAVING and ORDER BY clauses
 Retrieve data from multiple tables
 Use SQL arithmetic operations
 Use scalar and column functions
 Use set operators
 INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE rows
 Code simple CREATE TABLE and CREATE VIEW statements

Participants

Everyone needing to write, support, or understand SQL queries. This includes but is not limited to end-users, programmers, application designers, database administrators and system administrators who do not yet have knowledge of the SQL Data Manipulation Language (DML).

Prerequisite(s)

 Basic computer literacy
 Basic editing skills
 Database skills are not required

Options

This course covers the following major topics:

 Introduction
 Simple SQL Queries
 Joins - inner and outer
 Scalar functions and arithmetic
 Column functions and grouping
 Set operators
 Using Subqueries
 Maintaining data