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4.  What does the T stand for?  Transact  Structured Query Language  SQL is a database computer language designed for managing data in database management systems

5.  A way to organize large amounts of data  A collation of spreadsheets  A database is a collations a Tables  A server is a collation of databases

6.  A Table is a collations of fields (columns).  Tables have rows and each rows has columns  Tables are connected together logically with keys and or indexes.

7.  Basics of Microsoft SQL Management Studio  How to connect to a server  How to explore a database on the server  Basic of how to use the interface to run SQL scripts  Create, Drop  Insert, Update  Select, Join

9.  INNER Join – Result will contain matching records from both tables  LEFT Join – Result will contain all records from the “left” table even if the join-condition does not find any matching record in the “right” table  RIGHT Join – Result will contain all records from the “right” table even if the join-condition does not find any matching record in the “left” table  FULL Join – Result will contain all records from both tables, and fill in NULLs for missing matches on either side  CROSS Join – Result will contain returns the cartesian product of the sets of records from the two joined tables (Dangerous with large tables)

10. SELECT [ ALL | DISTINCT ] [ TOP ( expression ) [ PERCENT ] [ WITH TIES ] ] ::= { * | { table_name | view_name | table_alias }.* | { [ { table_name | view_name | table_alias }. ] { column_name | $IDENTITY | $ROWGUID } | udt_column_name [ {. | :: } { { property_name | field_name } | method_name ( argument [,...n] ) } ] | expression [ [ AS ] column_alias ] } | column_alias = expression } [,...n ]

11. [ WITH [,...n ] ] INSERT [ TOP ( expression ) [ PERCENT ] ] [ INTO ] { | rowset_function_limited [ WITH ( [...n ] ) ] } { [ ( column_list ) ] [ ] { VALUES ( { DEFAULT | NULL | expression } [,...n ] ) [,...n ] | derived_table | execute_statement | | DEFAULT VALUES } } [; ] ::= { [ server_name. database_name. schema_name. | database_name.[ schema_name ]. | schema_name. ] table_or_view_name } ::= SELECT FROM ( ) [AS] table_alias [ ( column_alias [,...n ] ) ] [ WHERE ] [ OPTION ( [,...n ] ) ]

12. [ WITH [...n] ] UPDATE [ TOP ( expression ) [ PERCENT ] ] { | rowset_function_limited [ WITH ( [...n ] ) ] } SET { column_name = { expression | DEFAULT | NULL } | { udt_column_name.{ { property_name = expression | field_name = expression } | method_name ( argument [,...n ] ) } } | column_name {.WRITE ( expression, @Offset, @Length ) } | @variable = expression | @variable = column = expression | column_name { += | -= | *= | /= | %= | &= | ^= | |= } expression | @variable { += | -= | *= | /= | %= | &= | ^= | |= } expression | @variable = column { += | -= | *= | /= | %= | &= | ^= | |= } expression } [,...n ] [ ] [ FROM{ } [,...n ] ] [ WHERE { | { [ CURRENT OF { { [ GLOBAL ] cursor_name } | cursor_variable_name } ] } } ] [ OPTION ( [,...n ] ) ] [ ; ] ::= { [ server_name. database_name. schema_name. | database_name.[ schema_name ]. | schema_name. ] table_or_view_name}

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