HPE NonStop SQL/MX Basics Training in Finland

  • Learn via: Classroom
  • Duration: 5 Days
  • Level: Fundamentals
  • Price: From €4,550+VAT
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This 5-day course is an introduction to SQL, relational database principles, and the HP NonStop SQL/MX product and serves as a prerequisite to more advanced NonStop SQL/MX courses. Hands-on lab sessions provide practical experience with generating SQL/MX queries to access data and creating database objects (catalogs, tables, indexes, views, and constraints).

  • Concepts and Facilities course


Audience

  • Anyone requiring an introduction to SQL and working with the NonStop SQL/MX product

  • Describe relational database concepts and terminology
  • Describe the HP NonStop™ SQL/MX processes and objects
  • Use a mxci session and reference ANSI names for SQL/MX database objects
  • Describe the basic process to write queries and the tools to evaluate the query performance
  • Use the mxci SELECT statement and predicates to retrieve data from single tables
  • List the types of functions supported in SQL/MX
  • Retrieve data from
  • Create a SQL/MX database (Catalog, Schema, Tables, Indexes, Views and Constraints)
  • Modify data in a table using SQL/MX INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements
  • Describe the SQL/MX access options and isolation levels
  • Describe SQL/MX database management functions

Benefits to you

Upon completion of this course, you will:

  • Understand key relational database concepts and terminology
  • Be able to use mxci commands to create SQL/MX objects
  • Be able to use SQL statements to retrieve or modify data in SQL/MX tables

Module 1 Introduction to SQL Relational Databases

  • Definition of a relational database
  • Components of a relational database table
  • Forming relationships in a relational database
  • Types of relationships
  • Description of Structured Query Language: Data Definition Language, Data Manipulation Language, Data Control Language, and Transaction Control Language
  • Characteristics of a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
  • Lab exercise


Module 2 Overview of SQL/MX Architecture

  • SQL/MX Architecture
  • SQL/MX System Metadata
  • User Metadata (UMD) Tables
  • User Catalog and Schemas
  • SQL/MX User Tables,Objects, Tables, Indexes, Views, Constraints, Triggers,Object Namespaces-Object Type, Security Model, Process Architecture, Components, Catalog Manager, DDL Operations, Utilities
  • NSM/web Architecture
  • Lab exercise


Module 3 Introduction to mxci

  • SQL/MX Help Facilities
  • Starting an mxci session
  • mxci Prompts and Termination Character
  • SQL/MX Identifiers
  • Logical (ANSI) Names
  • Specifying ANSI
  • Using Logical Names in an mxci Session
  • mxci
  • mxci cd Command, Is Commands
  • mxci — LOG Command
  • Lab exercise


Module 4 Query Writing Process

  • Overview of query execution
  • Overview of query development process
  • Analyzing the query objective, Generating the query, Executing the query
  • Verifying the results, Assessing performance
  • Lab exercise


Module 5 Retrieving Data from a Single Table

  • Data Types, Character Data Types, Numeric Data Types-Exact and Approximate, Datetime Data Types, Interval Data Types
  • INVOKE Command
  • SELECT Statement-Clauses, Syntax, Select List
  • SELECT-Select List, ALL or DISTINCT Rows, [ANY N] or [FIRST N]
  • FROM and WHERE Clause
  • Predicates
  • Row-Value-Constructor
  • Comparison Predicates-Syntax, Examples
  • LIKE, BETWEEN, and IN Predicates
  • Boolean Operators and Compound Predicates
  • NULL Values
  • IS [NOT] Predicate
  • ORDER BY, GROUP By, HAVING Clause
  • Lab exercise

Module 6 Functions and Expressions

  • Aggregate functions
  • Character functions
  • Datetime functions
  • Mathematical functions
  • Types of Expressions
  • Literal Expressions
  • Numeric Expressions
  • Lab Exercise


Module 7 Retrieving Data from Multiple Tables

  • Generating the following types of joins: CROSS, NATURAL, INNER, EQUI, LEFT, RIGHT, Self
  • Correlation Names
  • Join with Additional Search Conditions
  • UNION Operation
  • Lab exercise


Module 8 Query Expressions

  • Query Expression: Definition, Types, Joined Table, Syntax
  • Non-Joined Query Expresion Table: VALUES Statement, TABLE Statement, SELECT Query Specification
  • Simple Table - SELECT Expression


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Upcoming Trainings

Join our public courses in our Finland facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

12 tammikuuta 2025 (5 Days)
Helsinki, Espoo
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Helsinki, Espoo
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Helsinki, Espoo
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Helsinki, Espoo
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06 maaliskuuta 2025 (5 Days)
Helsinki, Espoo
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