Oracle® SQL*Plus®

• ORACLE PL/SQL® would be a natural follow-up to this introductory course. This describes the ORACLE application development environment which allows the writing of programs and stored procedures.

Day 1

• Introduction
  Objectives, Course Schedule, Course Introductions, Pre-requisites, Bibliography, Delegate Responsibilities, Course Content
• Relational Databases
  Objectives, What is a Database? What is a Relational Database? Types of Relationship, Tables, Rows and Columns, Primary Key, Secondary Indexes, Foreign Key, Referential Integrity, More on Relationships, Completing the Design, What is an ORACLE 8 Database, What is an ORACLE 8 Object-Relational Database, What is an ORACLE 8i Database, What is an ORACLE 9i Database, The ORDERS Tables, Entity Models, What is TOAD?, The FILM Tables, Course Tables Handout
• Components of SQL
  Objectives, ORACLE System Architecture, Database Versus Instance, The Instance, Process Structures, The Database Files, Initialisation File, Control File, Data File, Redo Log File, The Archiver - ARCH, Noarchivelog Mode, Archivelog Mode, What is Client/Server?, What is Oracle Net8?, What is ODBC?, How Oracle Works, What is an RDBMS?, Structured Query Language, Data Manipulation Language, Data Definition Language, Data Control Language, Why Use SQL?, Tools Available, Designer/2000 and Developer/2000, Enterprise Manager, Personal Edition, Oracle 8i Lite, Third Party Tools, What is SQL*Plus?, Starting SQL*Plus, The Oracle Technology Network, Accessing the Oracle Documentation
• Data Retrieval
  Objectives, Select Statement, Some SQL*Plus Commands, SQL*Plus Environment, LOGIN.SQL File, Finding Information about Tables, Where Clause, More SQL*Plus Commands, Datatypes, Nulls, Character Data, Column Command, Character Columns, AND and OR Clause, Using Brackets, Using Dates, Default Date Format, Order By Clause, IN Operator, BETWEEN Operator, LIKE Operator, Finding Metacharacters, Common Errors, IS NULL Operator, Comments, Concatenation, UNIX Environment
• Data Definition
  Objectives, Create As Select, Insert As Select, Datatypes, NULL Values, Create, Rename, Alter, Changing The Password, Create Index, Explain Plan, Drop, Data Update, Objectives, Insert, Update, Commit, Rollback, Delete, Savepoint, Truncate, Grant, Oracle Locks, How Locking Works, Revoke, Create Synonym, Create Public Synonym, Sequences

Day 2

• Multi-table Retrieval
  Objectives, Calculations, Rounding, Column Alias, Using Aliases, Cartesian Product, Table Join, Table Alias, Selecting the Join Column, Creating a Report, Break Command, Compute Command, Spool Command, Joining without Selecting
• Views
  Objectives, Views, Dropping Views, Derived Columns, Finding Views, Dictionary View, Accepting User Input, Using the Double Ampersand - &&, Define and Undefine, Command Line Input
• Functions
  Objectives, Simple Functions, NVL Function, TO_CHAR Function, Distinct Option, SUBSTR Function, INSTR Function, Date Fields, Default Date Format, Year 2000 Dates, Date Functions, System Functions, Aggregate Functions, COUNT Function, Group By Clause, Having Clause
• Utilities
  Objectives, What is a Utility?, Export, Import, Loading Data, Appending Data
• Advanced Queries
  Sub Select I, Sub Select II, Union, Intersect and Minus, Outer Join
• PL/SQL
  Objectives, What is PL/SQL?, Why Use PL/SQL?, Block Structure, Sample Code, Accepting User Input, Variables, SELECT Statement, Exceptions, Creating Procedures, Showing Errors, Describe a Procedure, Calling Procedures in SQL*Plus, Creating and Running Functions,

Day 3

• Table Management
  Objectives, Create Table, Testing Constraints, Testing Default Values, Testing Check Constraints, Testing Key Constraints, Alter Table, Clusters, Finding Objects, Drop Table, Creating Objects, Creating Tables with Objects, Using Objects in Tables, Large Object Support, LOB Datatypes, Creating Tables with LOBs, Inserting an Empty LOB, Creating Directories for BFILEs, Creating Tables with BFILEs, Inserting a BFILE
• Advanced Queries
  Objectives, ALL and ANY Operators, Correlated Sub Select, Correlated Update, More on Correlated Sub Select, Unloading Data

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