Oracle Introduction for Experienced SQL Users — A 2-Day Course

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Synopsis

This course is designed to give experienced SQL users practical experience in accessing an Oracle Database. This course is suitable for users of versions 9i, 10g and 11g.

Course Objectives

On completion of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Use SQL*Plus and SQL Developer to access the database
• Create and run SQL script files
• Query the database
• Use Oracle's numeric, character and date functions
• Implement Oracle's enhanced grouping features
• Create and alter tables, indexes and views
• Insert, update, merge and delete rows
• Grant and revoke access privileges
• Retrieve information from the data dictionary

Suitable For

This course is intended for:

• Anyone with practical experience of the SQL language who needs to migrate their existing skills to Oracle.

Prerequisites

Practical experience of using SQL with another relational database is required.

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Outline Course Contents

Introduction

• Oracle - a brief overview
• Users and roles
• Object naming rules
• Oracle datatypes
• The data dictionary
• Using SQL*Plus
• Entering and executing SQL statements
• Creating, editing and running SQL scripts
• Using SQL Developer
• Starting SQL Developer
• Configuring a Connection
• Navigation Tabs
• SQL Worksheet

Querying the Database

• Overview of the basics
• Traditional Oracle v. ANSI-standard table joins
• Set operators
• Using aggregate functions
• Subqueries and in-line views
• Using the WITH clause
• Hierarchical queries

Numeric and Character Functions

• Using the table dual
• Numeric functions
• Formatting numeric output
• Character functions and string concatenation

Date and Time Functions

• Default date and timestamp formats
• Accessing the current date and time
• Date and time arithmetic
• Date functions
• Formatting date and time output
• Conversion functions

Miscellaneous Functions

• NVL and NVL2
• DECODE
• The simple CASE expression
• The searched CASE expression

Enhanced Grouping Features

• The ROLLUP extension
• The CUBE extension
• The GROUPING function
• The GROUPING_ID function
• The GROUPING SETS extension

Tables, Indexes and Views

• Creating tables
• Defining datatypes
• Specifying constraints
• Table, column and constraint operations
• Recovering dropped tables
• Temporary tables
• External tables
• Index-organized tables
• Handling B-tree indexes
• Creating and using views
• Creating and using sequences

Managing Data

• Inserting rows
• Updating rows
• Deleting rows
• Verifying updates
• Multi-table inserts
• Merging rows
• Basic transaction control

Access Control

• System privileges
• User accounts and roles
• Granting and revoking object privileges
• Using synonyms

The Data Dictionary

• Data dictionary tables
• Querying the data dictionary
• Useful SQL statements

Analytic Functions

• RANK and DENSE_RANK
• NTILE and WIDTH_BUCKET
• Analytic aggregates
• Reporting aggregate functions
• Windowing aggregate functions