Introduction to the Ingres Product and Ingres SQL

Code: IngresSQL
Days: 5
Ingres Version: 9.2 and 10.0

You will learn:

At the end of this course you will be able to:

• Understand the principles and importance of Relational Databases
• Explore each of the principal Ingres database and development tools
• Understand the principles and importance of industrial-strength SQL
• Make full use of all the retrieval features of Ingres SQL
• Make full use of all the data-change features of Ingres SQL
• Make full use of all the database-management features of Ingres SQL
• Make full use of Ingres Database Procedures, Rules, Events, Integrity features

Course Style

This course provides you with all the knowledge and skill you need to:

• use Ingres SQL in your batch interfaces, reporting, ad-hoc querying, applications
• undertake the Ingres Application Development and Database Management courses
• understand and assess the role of Ingres in your organisation.

It has 3 sections: day 1 focuses on Ingres principles and hands-on experience of all the Ingres database and development tools; days 2-4 cover all the essential aspects of Ingres SQL; day 5 covers Database procedures, rules, events, and integrity features.
The course is a mixture of lecture and demonstrations with hands on practical exercises for all key topics.

Who Should Attend

This course is an essential prerequisite for anyone undertaking other Ingres training: IngresDBM, OpenROAD, IngresABF, ReportWriter, Performance. Others who will benefit from attendance on this course are:

• Managers or IT staff who need to understand or assess the Ingres principles, tools and capabilities (for those who only need this, attendance on Day 1 is sufficient).
• IT or other staff who need to use Ingres SQL to retrieve or change their database data.
• Database or development staff who need to work with Ingres database procedures, rules, events, integrities.

Prerequisites

No knowledge of Ingres or SQL is assumed.

Key Topics

Day 1: Ingres Overview

• Introduction to Ingres
• Relational Concepts and Ingres
• Ingres Basic Tools: ISQL, Tables, QBF, ReportWriter
• Ingres Visual Tools: VSQL, IVM, VDBA, IMP
• Ingres Development Tools: OpenROAD, ABF/Vision

Day 2-4: Ingres SQL

• Controlling output
• Restricting rows
• Functions
• Combining Tables
• Sub-queries
• Views, unions and outer joins
• Building tables
• Inserts, Updates and Deletes
• Importing and exporting data from Ingres
• Transaction processing

Day 5: Ingres Server SQL

• Database procedures
• Rules
• Database Events
• Integrity

Next Course

Either Managing Ingres Databases (IngresDBM), Developing OpenROAD Applications (OpenROAD), Developing ABF Applications (IngresABF) or Reporting Ingres Data (ReportWriter).

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