Oracle and SQL Short Courses
The Oracle and SQL short course teaches the basics of constructing and manipulating the gold-standard relational database - Oracle. You will learn how to create and populate database components such as tables and views, and enforce business rules with the use of appropriate constraints.
Software version: Oracle 11g
Course Information
| Start Date | Start Time | Duration | Cost | Course Code | Apply |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 18 October 2012 | 18:30 - 20:30 | 10 weekly classes | £390.00 | CE1579 | Course Cancelled |
| Thursday 24 January 2013 | 18:30 - 20:30 | 10 weekly classes | £390.00 | CE1579 | Apply Now |
| Thursday 2 May 2013 | 18:30 - 20:30 | 10 weekly classes | £390.00 | CE1579 | Apply Now |
Tutor Info
Sokratis Karkalas holds a BA in Education, a BSc in Economics, an MBA and an MSc in Computer Science. Nowadays he is working towards the completion of a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and educational technologies at Birkbeck, University of London. In parallel he works as a teaching assistant for Birkbeck and he is a member of the London Knowledge Lab. He has been working since 1991 both in the industry and in the academia holding various posts. He was a chief IT manager for a multi-national group of industrial companies for several years. He contributed as a scientific associate in large scale EU projects at the University of Thessaly in Greece. He has teaching experience in secondary, tertiary and vocational education for many years mainly teaching programming languages and related technologies (Assembly, C, C++, Pascal, Java, VB6, Excel VBA, Access VBA, Project VBA, VBScript, JavaScript, Windows Shell Script, SQL, RDS, ASP, ADO, XML, RDF, ESRI ArcObjects and others).
Eligibility
Strong computer literacy.
English Requirements
Applicants must be proficient in written and spoken English.What will I learn?
- Database management systems and the relational model
- Basic design and entity-relationship modeling
- The SQL*Plus environment: editing using the buffer and Oracle scripting
- Data manipulation language: select statements; filtering rows with where, using predicate logic (and, or and not operators)
- Using (inner, equi-) joins to extract data from more than one table
- Oracle functions and statements: text functions and conversion functions; nesting functions; the describe statement
- Report writing: formatting output using SQL and SQL*Plus
- Data definition language: creating tables, altering tables, dropping tables
- Data manipulation language: inserting, updating, deleting and copying rows in a table
- Views: creating views, describing views, dropping views
- SQL Aggregate functions, group by and having
- The SQL standard and Oracle-specific SQL; review of differences in key SQL statements between vendors.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Use command-line based operating environments
- Understand the basic of database theory and design
- Manipulate and define data in tables using SQL
- Use effectively core features of Oracle's SQL*Plus utility
- Gain enough basic knowledge to explore and learn more SQL independently.