Querying MySQL Course Outline

Overview
MySQL® is the open source community's most popular Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) offering, and is a key part of LAMP – Linux™, Apache™, MySQL®, PHP/Perl/Python®. Many Fortune 500 companies adopt MySQL to reap the benefits of an open source, platform-independent RDMS, such as simplifying conversion from other platforms and lowering database Total Cost of Ownership by 90%. This class encourages the student to explore database fundamentals, as well as MySQL features. Students learn the basics of MySQL use and the programming of stored routines. This course covers MySQL 8.0.

Audience
Application and web developers.

Prerequisites
Prior experience installing software and programming in any language, such as HTML, is recommended but not required.

COURSE OUTLINE

An introduction to relational databases and SQL
An introduction to client/server systems
An introduction to the relational database model
An introduction to SQL and SQL-based systems
The SQL statements
How to use SQL from an application program

How to use MySQL Workbench and other development tools
An introduction to MySQL Workbench
How to use MySQL Workbench to run SQL statements
How to use the MySQL Reference Manual
How to use the MySQL Command Line Client

How to retrieve data from a single table
An introduction to the SELECT statement
How to code the SELECT clause
How to code the WHERE clause
How to code the ORDER BY clause
How to code the LIMIT clause

How to retrieve data from two or more tables
How to work with inner joins
How to work with outer joins
Other skills for working with joins
How to work with unions

How to insert, update, and delete data
How to create test tables
How to insert new rows
How to update existing rows
How to delete existing rows

How to code summary queries
How to work with aggregate functions
How to group and summarize data
How to code aggregate window functions

How to code subqueries
An introduction to subqueries
How to code subqueries in the WHERE clause
How to use the ALL keyword
How to code subqueries in other clauses
How to work with complex queries
How to work with common table expressions

How to work with data types
The data types
How to convert data

How to use functions
How to work with string data
How to work with numeric data
How to work with date/time data
Other functions you should know about

How to create databases, tables, and indexes
How to work with databases
How to work with tables
How to work with indexes
How to use MySQL Workbench
How to work with character sets and collations
How to work with storage engines

How to create views
An introduction to views
How to work with views

Language skills for writing stored programs
An introduction to stored programs
How to write procedural code

How to use transactions and locking
How to work with transactions
How to work with concurrency and locking

How to create stored procedures and functions

How to code stored procedures
How to code stored functions
How to use Workbench with procedures and functions

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