SQL Training in Honolulu: Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL)

This is a comprehensive, hands-on course.

The above course will be offered again as a non-credit course by the Pacific Center for Advanced Technology Training

Course summary:
Databases, organized repositories of information, have become indispensable in today's world. In this introductory course you will learn about relational databases and the basics of Structured Query Language (SQL) including sorting; grouping result sets; using DDL, DML, DCL, and TCL. All SQL statements will initially be written for one table. Most practical, modern and relational databases will include a large number of tables and SQL queries have to access information from several tables. This course will then introduce you to querying more than one table. With this skill you will be able to query two or more tables in a database. This is a hands-on course which will take you from installing SQL Server 2012; learning the ins and outs of SQL Server Management Studio and of course a full dose of SQL.

The course covers most of the requirements to take Microsoft’s latest certification (98-364), the Microsoft Technology Associate.  During each meeting the students will be assessed for their knowledge, competency and proficiency in SQL.

Schedule:
Feb 4 - Mar 6, 2014; Tuesdays and Thrusdays; 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm; 10 mtgs

Deploying DAC to SQL Server 2014

The acronym DAC in SQL Server has many different meanings as in the following bullet list:

• DAC - Data-tier Application
• DAC - Dedicated Administrator Connection
• DAC - Data Access Components
• DAC - Data Application Component

This post describes deploying a Data-tier Application extracted from SQL Server 2012 Express database to SQL Server 2014 CTP1 (should work with CTP2 as well). The two servers are on two partitions on a x64 bit Windows laptop, with SQL Server 2012 on Windows 7 Partition and CTP1 on Windows 8 Preview partition.

There are no issues for this deployment and the next few images shows the stages of deployment wizard while deploying to SQL Server 2014 CTP1. We start with a .dac file created on Windows 7 partition and copied over to the desktop on Windows 8 partition.

 

The steps are very clear and you may also review the following for more detailed discussion of DAC with earlier versions on older OS.


https://www.packtpub.com/article/working-with-data-application-components-sql-server-2008-r2
http://hodentekmsss.blogspot.com/2010/07/sql-server-2008-r2-and-data-tier.html

Querying SQL Server 2012 with Power Query

Power Query is a great way to access data and Power View is a great way to view a report.

Some details of Power Query can be found here,
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2013/12/what-is-microsoft-power-query.html
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2013/12/what-is-difference-between-ms-query-and.html

Power View is covered in detail in my book,

This post shows how you may connect to SQL Server 2012 Express and query the databases therein using Power Query.

Step 1. If you have not installed the add-in do it now. Get it from this link here,
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39379

Step 2. Launch MS Access 2010 ( or your version). You should see in the splash screen that the add-in is also loaded.

Step 3. Anyway verify it from the Excel Options window that you can access from File menu as shown.

Step 4. Click menu item Power Query followed by From Database as shown.

Step 5. Click From SQL Server Database. In the window that pops-up type in the server name as shown. There is no browse feature here, you have to manually enter as shown.

Step 6. Click OK after entering SQL Server name and the following window pops-up.

Step 7. You can choose encrypted or unencrypted for you connection. Here Unencrypted is chosen.

Step 8. Click Save. The query window appears with a default name Query1 as shown. Here Northwind has been expanded to show the tables.

Step 9. Click on Categories as shown. The table content gets shown on the right side.

Step 10. You can further process the query using the built-in controls which can be displayed by right clicking the corner of the table as shown.

Step 11. The chosen options updates the steps, each time you make a choice a step is added as shown. Note that this next query is from AdventureWorksLT2012 database.

This will be saved to the workbook which you may name appropriately by completing this window. Right now there is no link to publish this result except saving it to the SkyDrive and use it later.

Enjoy

Query Designer in SQL Server 2012 Express

 Running queries is one of the basic tasks that you undertake. You have two options in SQL Server 2012 Express (also in all other versions), use T-SQL and execute the statements in the query pane of SQL Server 2012 or use the query designer. You will be able to design the query in the designer but you will not be able to execute inside the designer. Once you design the query in the editor the T-SQL code that gets generated is copied to the query pane. Once the T-SQL code is in the pane you can execute (using the Toolbar item EXECUTE(!) to run the query

There are two ways you can bring up the query designer

Step 1. Open a Query pane by right clicking either the Server Node or right clicking one
of the user databases as shown.

 SERVER NODE

USER DATABASE NODE

Step 2. Once the query pane is open, click inside the query pane. The main menu
changes
to display the Query menu item as shown.

 

Step 3.Click Query menu item to display a drop-down list and click on Design Query in Editor or Ctrl+Shift+Q

 

This should bring up the designer as shown.

Step 3b. Another way is to right click inside the query pane and choose Design Query in Editor as before.

 

Download this SQL Server 2014 CTP2 Reporting Services Add-in to integrate with Microsoft SharePoint

Report Integration for SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint 2010 was described comprehensively in my latest book:

The new features Power View and Data Alerts were treated in two complete chapters:

Chapter 6: Power View and Reporting Services
Six hands-on exercises

Chapter 7: Self service Data Alerts in SSRS 2012
Three hands-on exercises

The SharePoint 2010 used in the book should work equally well with SQL Server 2014 CTP2.

SQL Server 2014 CTP1 installation was described here.
http://hodentekmsss.blogspot.com/2013/09/installing-sql-server-2014-ctp1-on.html

Programs have been updated and new versions have appeared.
SQL Server 2014 is now in CTP2

Now how does one start working with features like Power View and Data Alerts?

You need to install and work with recent versions.

You need the following :
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2014 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint®, Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2)

You can download the above from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40738

Details from the above site are here:

·         The SQL Server 2014 CTP2 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint technologies deploys the Reporting Services user interface pages and features on a SharePoint web front-end server.

• The SQL Server 2014 CTP2 version of the Reporting Services add-in supports SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013.
• To use connected mode features of Reporting Services with the 2014 CTP2 add-in, the report server version must also be 2014 CTP2 version.
• For more information on supported versions, see “Supported Combinations of SharePoint and Reporting Services Components”.
• For more information on Local mode and connected mode, see “Use Access Services with SQL Reporting Services”.

After you install the Reporting Services Add-in and configure your servers for integration, you can publish Reporting Services content to a SharePoint library and then view and manage those documents directly from a SharePoint site. The Reporting Services Add-in provides the following functionality:

• Power View, a feature of Microsoft SQL Server 2014 CTP2 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition, is an interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience. It provides drag-and-drop ad hoc reporting for business users such as data analysts, business decision makers, and information workers. Power View reports are in a new file format, RDLX.
• Open reports in Report Builder from a SharePoint library, and save reports to SharePoint libraries.
• A Report Viewer Web Part, which provides report-viewing capability, export to multiple rendering formats, page navigation, search, print, and zoom.
• SharePoint web pages so that you can create subscriptions and schedules, and manage reports and data sources.
• Support for standard SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 features including document management, collaboration, security, and deployment with report server content types.
• The ability to add the Reporting Services Report Viewer Web Part to any page or dashboard on a SharePoint site and customize its appearance.
• The ability to use SharePoint permission levels and roles to control access to report server content. You can also use SharePoint forms authentication to support access over Internet connections.
• Reporting Services data alerts, a data-driven alerting solution for SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition that informs you about changes in report data that are of interest to you, and at a relevant time.

 

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Creating a matrix report using the Analysis Services Cube 

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Working with Data Application Components in SQL Server 2008 R2

 

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - Installation Made Easy

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Microsoft Lightswitch Application using SQL Azure Database

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MySQL Data Transfer using Sql Server Integration Services (SSIS)

 

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MySQL Linked Server on SQL Server 2008

 

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Migrating from MS SQL Server 2008 to EnterpriseDB

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Transferring Data from MS Access 2003 to SQL Server 2008

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Creating a Simple Report with Visual Studio 2008

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Displaying SQL Server Data using a Linq Data Source

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Overview of SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 Architecture, Features, and Tools

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Using the Data Pager Control in Visual Studio 2008

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Microsoft Lightswitch: Querying and Filtering Data

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SSIS Applications using SQL Azure

 

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Oracle SQL Developer Tool 1.5 with SQL Server 2005

 

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Binding MS Chart Control to LINQ Data Source Control 

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Copying a Database from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 using the Copy Database Wizard

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Term Extraction Tasks in SQL Server Integration Services 

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Microsoft SQL Azure Tools 

 

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Programmatically Creating SSRS Report in Microsoft SQL Server 2008

 

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Working with the Report Builder in Microsoft SQL Server 2008: Part 2

 

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Twiiter IPO and SQL Server

Use SQL Server Reporting Services to report from Twitter:

http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2009/06/authoring-report-using-twitter-api.html

Tomorrow is Twitter IPO. Expectations are running high. In October it was between 17 to $20. Two days ago it was 23 to $25 and today it has gone up, may be $27 to $29. Only tomorrow can tell.

On the eve of this I provide my Twitter related posts on my Hodentek blog. I seem to remember that my Twitter article to SSQUG.org was published. I will check it out.

Please follow this link:
http://hodentek.blogspot.com/search?q=Twitter