55232-A: Writing Analytical Queries for Business Intelligence
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About This Course
Course Description:
This three-day instructor led course is about writing TSQL queries for the purpose of database reporting, analysis, and business intelligence. Specifically, this course presents TSQL within the context of data analysis – in other words, making meaning from the data rather than transaction-oriented data-tier application development.
The course starts with a brief discussion of levels of measurement and quantitative research methodology, and integrates these concepts into each TSQL topic presented. The goal is to provide a consistent, direct, and purposeful learning path for RDBMS data retrieval for use in analytical tools such as SQL Server, Reporting Services, PowerBI, R, and Excel.
Learning Objectives
Identify independent and dependent variables and measurement levels in their own analytical work scenarios.
Identify variables of interest in relational database tables.
Choose a data aggregation level and data set design appropriate for the intended analysis and tool.
Use TSQL SELECT queries to produce ready-to-use data sets for analysis in tools such as PowerBI, SQL Server Reporting Services, Excel, R, SAS, SPSS, and others.
Create stored procedures, views, and functions to modularize data retrieval code.
Describe the purpose of analytical queries
Describe the function of TSQL data retrieval in an analytics/business intelligence environment
Describe the primary functions of the database engine
Discuss TSQL as a declarative language
Identify variables of interest in database tables
Write basic SELECT queries
Implement column expressions in SELECT queries
Implement column and table aliases
Describe data types and Implement data type conversions
Implement built-in functions
Use WHERE and ORDER BY clauses in SELECT queries
Discuss and describe the conceptual flow of JOIN operations
Implement INNER and OUTER JOIN operations on two or more tables
Describe the order of operations of SELECT clauses
Combine JOIN operations with WHERE and ORDER BY
Describe the row granularity of result sets
Discuss and implement aggregate functions to achieve required row granularity
Use GROUP BY to calculate aggregate values for groups
Use HAVING to filter records in the result set by aggregate value
Combine GROUP BY and HAVING with WHERE and ORDER BY
Describe and discuss the rationale of creating intermediate results sets within SELECT queries
Implement non-correlated and correlated subqueries
Implement derived tables
Implement Common Table Expressions
Create intermediate to advanced TSQL queries to retrieve result sets for analysis
Identify scenarios in which views, table-valued functions, and stored procedures simply data retrieval
Compare and contrast views, table-valued functions, and stored procedures
Create views, table-valued functions, and stored procedures
Describe the security requirement for creating database objects
Implement views, table-valued functions, and stored procedures for users with read-only access to source data
Describe the properties of database connection strings
Run queries from, and return results to, Excel, PowerBI, and RStudio
Export query results to external text files using the SSMS results pane, the bcp utility, and the Import/Export Wizard
Inclusions
- Certified Instructor-led training
- Official Training Seminar Student Handbook
- Collaboration with classmates (not currently available for self-paced course)
- Real-world learning activities and scenarios
- Exam scheduling support*
- Enjoy job placement assistance for the first 12 months after course completion.
- This course is eligible for CCS Learning Academy’s Learn and Earn Program: get a tuition fee refund of up to 50% if you are placed in a job through CCS Global Tech’s Placement Division*
- Government and Private pricing available.*
Pre-requisites
- Context knowledge of data analysis and business intelligence scenarios. For example, an understanding of a work-related business intelligence project or need.
- Basic knowledge of the Windows operating system and its core functionality, including file system navigation.
- Basic understanding of the purpose of relational database management systems such as SQL Server.
Target Audience
- This course is intended for information workers and data science professionals who seek to use database reporting and analysis tools such as Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, Excel, Power BI, R, SAS and other business intelligence tools, and wish to use TSQL queries to efficiently retrieve data sets from Microsoft SQL Server relational databases for use with these tools.
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$1,495.00
Inclusions
- Certified Instructor-led training
- Official Training Seminar Student Handbook
- Collaboration with classmates (not currently available for self-paced course)
- Real-world learning activities and scenarios
- Exam scheduling support*
- Enjoy job placement assistance for the first 12 months after course completion.
- This course is eligible for CCS Learning Academy’s Learn and Earn Program: get a tuition fee refund of up to 50% if you are placed in a job through CCS Global Tech’s Placement Division*
- Government and Private pricing available.*
