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We limit our courses to no more than 6 people per class.
Unlike almost every other computer training company, we never subcontract or use freelancers - here's why this matters.
The best courseware in the industry? See for yourself▼
Our course manuals and exercises are by some way the best in the computer training industry. Fortunately you don't have to take our word for this - you can see for yourself:
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We've put a lot of thought into making our online courses as useful and interactive as possbile:
Delegates use Remote Desktop to connect to our machines, so our trainers can see everyone's screens at all time.
We arrange (without charge) a half-hour pre-course check for each online delegate before courses, to ensure that they everyone will be able to join the course seamlessly when it begins.
As well as providing a PDF of the manual and exercises for each online course delegate we will (again without charge) also post this out to each person a few days before if required.
Choose a specific course, or stay on this page to see all of our SQL training.
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Our current SQL scheduled courses
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If you can't see the course you want listed above, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set
up the computers), or else
an online course tailored to your needs.
What other people have said about our SQL training
Here are some comments we've received about our SQL + training. You can see all of our 528 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.
"The course was really well paced. The trainer made sure we understood the basics before continuing."
Megan Roberts
Southbank Centre
"An excellent trainer, full of energy and really keen to see us improve on our existing SQL skills. Kept me engaged throughout the entire training process. Used SQL in the past but wanted to gain more understanding of the different clauses which are used. Came out of the training with a much better understanding of SQL, in that I now know when to use each clause and how to format queries."
Joshua Woolner
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
"The course instructor was very knowledgeable, engaging and enthusiastic to keep everyone involved. The course was not overwhelming and I came away feeling I've learned quite a bit more about SQL."
John Payne
Liquid Logic (System C)
"Really enjoyed the course, well delivered and some great topics."
Gemma Tomlinson
Derby and Burton Hospitals NHS FT
"An excellent teacher and trainer. The course content was specifically tailored to suit our needs and he did a wonderful job teaching us it and further enlightening us on a number of topics. I can't recommend him highly enough."
Thomas Crozier
Home Office
"The instructor made complex content accessible and enjoyable to learn. The manual will also provide further learning and support my SQL use at work. I chose the course based on the strength of the Power BI course (I previously attended) and the standard of this course was just as good."
Sophia Sharpley
Sage Publishing
About our SQL training
Sick of having to contact your IT people or third party supplier to get at your own data? Learn to write queries to get at it yourself, using either SQL Server Management Studio or (by request) Azure Data Studio. We run two scheduled courses: a two-day introduction to SQL course, and a two-day advanced SQL course.
If you're a quick learner you could consider combining these two courses together and attending our single three-day fast-track course (but only if you're a quick learner).
Two-day introductory course - selecting data using SQL
This course will show you how to write queries like the one below using T-SQL, the dialect of SQL used within Microsoft's SQL Server:
-- show how many films there are for each certificate
SELECT
c.Certificate,
COUNT(*) as'Number of films'
FROM
Film as f
INNERJOIN Certificate AS c
ON f.CertificateID = c.CertificateID
GROUPBY
c.Certificate
ORDERBY
-- show most popular certificate first
'Number of films'DESC
This won't necessarily make much sense to you now, but it will do after the course!
This course assumes that you know how to write queries, and shows you how to program in SQL, including using variables, writing stored procedures and functions and using table variables and temporary tables. Here's a sample of what you'll learn to do:
CREATEPROC spListFilms(
@minOscars int,
@maxOscars int
)
AS
-- list films winning this many Oscars
SELECT
f.Title,
f.OscarWins
FROM
Film AS f
WHERE
f.OscarWins between @minOscars and @maxOscars
Still not sure which is the right course for you? There's more help available here.
Finally, note that we're also big believers in teaching you not just how to write queries, but how to write them well, following our own internal SQL coding standards.
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions
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How can I contact you with any questions?▼
You can reach us in one of the following ways:
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Call us on (0161) 883 3606 and (within normal UK office hours) a friendly and helpful human will answer the phone!
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Send an email to our inbox and we'll aim to answer it within a couple of working hours.
Web
Fill in an enquiry form letting us know what you want to achieve, and we'll do our best to help!
Do you offer SQL consultancy too?▼
If you can't invest the time to learn to write SQL, why not let our SQL gurus do it for you?
Get specific details about our
SQL consultancy, or more general information about how our
consultancy works.
Is there an easy way for me to assess my SQL skills?▼
You can take the following tests to assess your SQL skills on this site:
Each tests consists of 20 questions. The tests are free and anonymous, and at the end you'll see a full analysis of your results (as well as a comparison of how well you did relative to everyone else who has previously taken the test).
Do you have any SQL videos?▼
We've got the following videos on our site to help you to learn SQL:
Creating stored procedures and user-defined functions, using variables, working with temporary tables and table variables, and all aspects of SQL programming (roughly equivalent to the contents of our Advanced SQL course).
