This is the recommended seventh class of the Technical Solutions Delivery Certificate. Finding agile solutions and delivering technology projects can be difficult. It can be especially difficult for non-IT professional to understand how different technological elements work together. This certificate provides you with an overview of the programs and systems commonly used in projects so that you can communicate and collaborate effectively with your project team.

Structured Query Language (SQL) is the programming language for managing data in relational databases. This class will discuss the theory, logic, and syntax, and give a basic overview so that you can obtain a basic understanding of SQL capabilities. 

Performance Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Describe parts of the SQL language and understand its power within relational databases.
• Use SQL to retrieve data from a relational database.
• Work with SQL calculations and functions to manipulate data.
• Add conditional logic for more complex selections.
• Join multiple related tables.
• Recognize and understand the power of subqueries.
• Describe using SQL to change data in a database.

Intended Audience:    This course is ideal for anyone, but especially communications professionals engaged in project planning.  This class is aimed at non-IT professionals to gain an understanding of the IT world.

Recommended Prerequisite: To be successful in this course, you should be familiar with using personal computers, the mouse, and keyboard. You should be able to use Windows to launch and close programs, navigate to information stored on the computer, and manage files and folders.