Tag: SQL101

Wednesday night I had the opportunity to give my SQL 101, the basics presentation. I hadn’t given this one since just before leaving IntegrationPoint earlier this year.  I spent a little time updating the presentation based on past evaluations and some changes in SQL.  My new version includes some newer data types that have been…

Wednesday November 24th, from 5 – 7pm I’ll be offering my SQL 101 course.  I was thinking about adding a remote option for those of you who can’t make it up to Concord.  I’d like to know how many of you there will be so I can arrange GoToMeeting, or something similar so you can…

Within a few days of using SQL, you’re going to start wondering if there is a way to speed up your code writing. The good news is you can do that with Aliases. You can give a table or a column another name by using an alias. This can be a good thing to do…

These answers have been updated to work with Adventureworks on 2008R2. 1. Write an UPDATE query that would set your middle name, for only your record by personID. (if there is no record for you, add it in first, then show me the update to set your middle name.) UPDATE Person.Contact SET MiddleName = ‘Dwight’…

Here’s another set of questions for you to practice on.  As always, if you have any questions, let me know and I’ll help you. UPDATE 1. Write an UPDATE query that would set your middle name, for only your record by personID. (if there is no record for you, add it in first, then show…

Here are my solutions updated to work with AdventureWorks on 2008R2. 1. Write a DELETE query that would remove a record from person.contact by contactID, pick a contactID that does not exist in person.contact. DELETE FROM Person.Contact WHERE ContactID = -1 2. Write a DELETE query that would remove a record from person.contact by first…

Here are some more practice problems.  This time you’re going to practice using DELETE. 1. Write a DELETE query that would remove a record from person.contact by contactID, pick a contactID that does not exist in person.contact. 2. Write a DELETE query that would remove a record from person.contact by first and last name. 3….

Here are the answers to the previous practice problems. 1. Write the query that would put the full name (as much of it as you know)  of your favorite Star Wars character into the Person.Contact table.  Use the title field to identify them as  ‘SWChar’. You can use the INSERT that uses VALUES or SELECT…