This comprehensive training course expands your SQL expertise with advanced Oracle techniques such as analytic queries, flashback technology, and regular expressions. It’s ideal preparation for Oracle certification and for handling sophisticated database operations with confidence.
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Oracle SQL Advanced
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Course overview
Enhance your capabilities in advanced Oracle SQL
This two-day advanced Oracle SQL course builds your expertise in complex queries, analytics, and large data handling. Designed for experienced SQL users, it also supports preparation for Oracle certification, enhancing both technical capability and career prospects.
Learning objectives
- Develop advanced skills in constructing subqueries
- Organise and query hierarchical data structures
- Leverage complex analytic and ranking functions
- Integrate, update, and manage substantial datasets
- Use regular expressions to cleanse and format data
- Apply Oracle flashback tools for restoring data
- Manage user permissions and database object security
- Access and analyse data from external sources
- Work confidently with date, time, and time zone data types
What you’ll learn
Learn to harness advanced Oracle SQL features, including analytics, flashback tools, and regular expressions, through hands-on training. By the end of this two-day course, you’ll be able to streamline complex queries and confidently manage extensive and demanding datasets.
Grouping enhancements and data analysis
Discover advanced grouping methods, including ROLLUP, CUBE, and GROUPING SETS, to produce multi-level summaries in a single query. Understand how to apply the GROUPING and GROUPING_ID functions for detailed output control. These features allow you to deliver richer, more flexible reports that meet diverse business and stakeholder needs without increasing complexity in your SQL code.
Flashback and data recovery tools
Learn to use Oracle’s flashback features to query previous states of data, restore dropped tables, and recover from user errors. You’ll work with Flashback Query, Flashback Table, and Flashback Drop commands. These capabilities provide a safety net in live environments, enabling you to correct mistakes quickly while maintaining business continuity and data integrity.
Regular expressions and data management
Harness the power of regular expressions to validate, cleanse, and transform your data efficiently. Explore notation, repetition operators, sub-expression grouping, and related functions to create robust pattern-matching solutions. You’ll also work with virtual columns, external tables, and date-time handling, equipping you to store, access, and process complex data types accurately in diverse business scenarios.
What’s included
- Two days of interactive, instructor-led online training
- Guidance from experienced Oracle SQL specialists
- Comprehensive digital resources with hands-on practice activities
- A certificate awarded on successful completion of the course
Key facts
Ideal for
Professionals with existing SQL knowledge who want to progress into advanced Oracle SQL. Suitable for developers, data analysts, database administrators, and IT specialists aiming to improve query performance, streamline data management, and deepen their technical skill set.
Prerequisites
A strong grasp of fundamental Oracle SQL is essential. Completing an introductory Oracle SQL course, or having comparable hands-on experience, will allow you to benefit fully from this advanced course.
Learning experience
Our experienced trainers and interactive labs create a focused, practical environment – so you can put theory into practice from day one.
FAQs
This two-day advanced Oracle SQL training covers high-level querying, data restoration, and advanced pattern-matching techniques. Designed for seasoned SQL users, it strengthens database management skills and supports progression towards recognised Oracle certification.
What job roles and career paths can benefit from the Oracle SQL Advanced course?
Advanced Oracle SQL skills are highly valued in roles such as database administrator, data analyst, data engineer, business intelligence developer, and application developer. By completing this course, you’ll know how to manage complex queries, optimise data handling, and support large-scale database operations - skills that can open opportunities for promotion, specialist positions, or progression into database architecture and administration careers.
Which Oracle certification should I take after completing advanced SQL training?
If you’ve completed the Oracle SQL Advanced course, a logical next step is the Oracle Database SQL Fundamentals 1Z0-071 exam, particularly when paired with the Oracle SQL course. For those aiming for database administration roles, combining this course with Oracle SQL and Oracle Database 19c Administration prepares you for the Oracle Database Administration I 1Z0-082 exam. Both certifications are widely recognised and can enhance your professional profile.
Why are regular expressions and external tables useful?
Regex functions are brilliant for finding and cleaning up messy data, like pulling out postcodes, removing extra spaces, or matching patterns. We’ll show you how to use them in real SQL queries. You’ll also learn how to work with external tables, which means you can read flat files directly from disk without loading them into your database. It’s a huge time-saver for data migration or one-off imports.
What are the benefits of analytic and hierarchical queries in Oracle SQL?
Analytic queries let you perform complex calculations directly within your SQL, reducing the need for separate reporting tools and speeding up analysis. Hierarchical queries make it easy to explore relationships in your data, from parent-child structures to category breakdowns. In this Oracle SQL Advanced course, you’ll learn how to use both techniques to uncover insights faster and present information in formats that decision-makers can act on immediately.
What our customers say
“This is now my second course with John at ILX and once again the delivery was simply excellent. I was a little bit worried coming in that I wouldn't have the requisite knowledge; however, I found it was just about the perfect level between being able to understand the concepts and stretching the grey matter. The best fun I've had at work for a while now and would very highly recommend the course to anyone who's taking on more SQL work in their job. Hoping to come back for more in the future!”
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