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Introduction to MySQL Training Course

Two days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)

This course is available in the following formats (all prices exclude VAT):

Classroom (London)
£1,350

Classroom (Manchester)
£995

Onsite (your office)
Please ask

Online (your home)
£825

You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

There aren't any pre-requisites for this course, although you'll find it easier if you've already seen a relational database (one with lots of tables joined together).

Note that this is a new course, which means our usual no-cancel guarantee does not apply to all bookings.

Course schedule

Here are our next few Introduction to MySQL course dates:

Dates	Times	Venue	Price (excl. VAT)
16-17 May	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
01-02 Jul	09:30-16:30	Manchester	£995	Book
18-19 Jul	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
29-30 Aug	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
26-27 Sep	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
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Got a handful of like-minded people in your organisation? You could consider booking your own customised onsite course, whereby you get to pick the dates and venue!

Course Contents - PDF

Introduction to MySQL training course contents

If you've got a database built in MySQL, we can teach you how to get information out of it! On this two-day introduction to MySQL course you'll learn how to:

Use a WHERE clause to choose which records to view
Create new columns using built-in functions and custom expressions
Link tables together using inner and outer joins
Aggregate data using the GROUP BY clause to show statistics

You'll use MySQL Workbench on the course, although you don't need to have this installed on your computer as you'll either be using Remote Desktop to link to a Wise Owl computer (for Wise Owl computers) or using our laptops (for classroom courses).

The contents of this course are as follows:

MySQL installation overview

Installation on Windows
MySQL Service
The User account
Command line interface

Using MySQL Workbench

Connections
The Navigator
The main window
The schema window

Creaitng databases

Designing databases
Primary keys

Working with tables

Creating tables
Field types
Creating relationships

Simple queries

Creating SELECT queries
Commenting your queries
Good coding practice
Table and column aliases

Setting criteria using WHERE

Creating criteria
Using wildcards
Filtering by date
Handling nulls

Calculations

Calculated columns
Using aliases
Converting data types
Using built-in functions

Calculations using dates

The current date/time
Using date functions

Joins

Inner joins
Giving tables aliases
Left and right outer joins

Aggregation and grouping

Single statistics
Various ways to count
Grouping by columns
Filtering results using HAVING

Subqueries if time

Subquery syntax
Creating subqueries
Using subqueries in a query

Derived tables and CTEs if time

Using derived tables
Common Table Expressions (CTEs)
Multiple CTEs

Models if time

Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs)
Reverse engineering ERDs

Please see further up this page for what you should know beforehand (if anything) in order to attend this course.

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

No more than 6 people per class
581 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

Proper restaurant lunch included

And some benefits specific to online training:

Courseware manual posted to you in advance
Free half-hour pre-course check-up included
Our clever system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

What other people have said

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts. All of the following reviews are from the last 3 calendar years:

"Excellent introduction into PBI, the trainer was great at explaining things and worked through the course at a good pace. Would definitely recommend!"

Thomas Sanderson (Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust)

"I like the course, it was a good intro to PBI and the trainer was very helpful in answering questions and pointing us in the right direction. Whole two days were run in a really professional manner, good structure and pace of the course and it seems no one was left behind. I was glad to see equipment and workbooks were provided and all files for the exercises prepared and easily accessible. I like also examples and references to Excel."

Dariusz Blaszczak (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)

"Lovely and enthusiastic trainer who remained upbeat and engaging throughout."

Louisa Martin (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC))

"Excellent course, worked well online and felt an excellent interactive experience. Plenty of one on one time and would use again without any doubt. Used WiseOwl before and had the knowledge the course would provide everything needed."

Simon Lyons (The Original Factory Shop)

"I thought the training was fantastic and the trainer very engaging. It is great to have the manual and the SQL scripts as a resource to refer to!"

Natalie Friend DuPreez (Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC))

There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).

How our training courses work

Below are some notes on how Wise Owl courses work, to help you decide whether they're for you or not.

What you'll need

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

What you won't need

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed. This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

The start of the course

For online courses you will be able to join up to half an hour before the course begins. This will give you time to:

familiarise yourself with the set-up;
meet your trainer; and
get to know the other delegates!

For classroom training it's always nice if people arrive a bit early too, to give people time to meet each other (and drink coffee).

You'll be given a full colour courseware manual, an exercise booklet to go with the course and a USB stick for taking course files away (we'll post all this to you for online courses).

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

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