1. SQL Server Fundamentals for Beginners
Harvey Hyman
“the database whisperer”
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2. Hyman Bio Senior Chief USCG, OIF PhD, 2012
Georgia Southern, 2013 – 2014
Florida Polytechnic, 2014 – 2015
New College of Florida, 2015 – 2016
Library of Congress, 2016
Moffitt Cancer Center, 2017
Muma College of Business at University of South Florida,

3. Topics Covered Getting Started with SSMS (downloading, installing)
Basic and Interesting Features of 17.9
Navigating the Object Explorer Panel
Using the Database Diagram feature
Creating a database from your ERD
Building Tables and Views
Adding a Column after you have data (null problem), adding a PK later
Setting up Checks, Rules, Defaults, Triggers
Simple Query Operators and SPROCs
Joins, inner, outer, “on”

4. Additional References
Separate PPT slide decks are available for each topic listed.
They are accompanied by practice databases.
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5. If you are starting completely from scratch
SQL Server Engine
Express versus Developer
SSMS versus SQLCMD
Where to find it
Downloading
Installing

6. Tour of Basic Features
17.9 versus 18 (dropped support for Database Diagram)
Navigating the Object Explorer Panel: Folders
Databases (where you will spend most of your time)
Security (roles, setting logins)
Server Objects (server level triggers)
Using Database Diagram functionality
mapping an existing database,
create new database drag and drop,
modify an existing database drag and drop
Using Table Designer
“Right clicking your way to happiness”
Table level design versus modify column

7. Creating a database from an ERD
Entities and their relations
Attributes
PK (selecting data type, identity, seed, increment)
Relational Schema
Selecting your FK – PK relationships

8. Let’s build some tables
Things to know before you start:
Create, attach, detach database
DATA folder
Tools  Options Designer (uncheck ‘the box’)

9. Creating Tables Items to consider:
Setting PK, Identity, Seed, Increment
Column Data Types, Size

10. Setting Relations Between Tables
Adding Column FK in the foreign table.
Linking FK in foreign table to PK in primary table.

11. Indexes: Cluster or Non-cluster
Default is PK is indexed as clustered
Only one clustered index per table.
I recommend setting PK as non-cluster.
Index conventions: AK, UN, IX

12. Views What are views? How we can use them to: Test View: Hide columns
Hide rows
“Pre-join” columns from multiple tables (we will visit this in Joins)
Test View:
Select * table vs Select top 20
Select * table_vw
Edit top 200 rows
SQLCMD

13. SQL Codes create view MaryBrown_vw as select * from Employee
where empno = '1012'
CREATE VIEW Employee_vw AS
SELECT EmpNo, FirstName, LastName, JobTitle, HireDate, MgrNo, DeptNo
FROM Employee

14. Adding a new Column Dealing with a new column null values
Adding a new FK column
Adding a new PK column (use identity to avoid the null constraint issue)

15. Constraints
Checks
Rules
Defaults
Triggers

16. Queries Select From Where Order by Wild cards: %, *
Comparisons: Like, =

17. SPROCs – Stored Procedure A query wrapped as an executable
Practical Uses:
Reusable query
Embedded in the database
Avoid the need to open .sql file

18. Join Types Inner Left / Right “outer” Full
Operation: exclusive, most common
Purpose: Include only matching rows from tables on both sides of join command.
Left / Right “outer”
Operation: inclusive matching
Purpose: Include all from inclusive side (left or right), and only the matching rows from other side.
Full
Operation: shows all rows from both tables.
Purpose: Include matching rows, and rows that don’t have a match from left and rows that don’t have a match from right.
Left
Right

19. Harvey Hyman “the database whisperer” Any questions?