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SQL Server Video Tutorial - The JOIN Condition is the Key to Writ ing JOINs

2010-03-19T08:32:00.001-07:00

SQL Server Training Video: The JOIN Condition is the Key to Writing JOINs

A SQL Server training video from the LearnItFirst the web's largest IT Training Video Library

The JOIN Condition is the Key to Writing JOINs

Just blindly understanding a template is not enough, you need to understand the how and why behind the template. In this video Scott will go into depth on the JOIN condition, which is the key to writing JOINs, so that you understand the background of the JOIN condition which will make your life as a query writer much, much easier.

Highlights from this video:

JOIN condition

why is it so important?
defines the predicate or "C"

Working through some problems using the JOIN condition

and much more

N.B.: This training video comes from LearnItFirst's Writing Queries for SQL Server (2005/2008 Edition) video course.

SQL Server Integration Services Video - Chapter Introduction: Wha t Is Included

2010-03-18T20:32:00.001-07:00

SQL Server Integration Services Video: Chapter Introduction: What Is Included

This SSIS 2008 tutorial comes from the LearnItFirst IT Training Video Library.

Chapter Introduction: What Is Included (Video)

SQL Server Integration Services Video Tutorial - Formatting Optio ns in SSIS - How to Make Your Packages More Manageable

2010-03-18T08:32:00.001-07:00

SSIS 2005 Training: Formatting Options in SSIS - How to Make Your Packages More Manageable

This training video is brought to you by the folks at LearnItFirst, one of the web's largest training videos companies.

Formatting Options in SSIS - How to Make Your Packages More Manageable

Description of this video:

Note: This video is from LearnItFirst.com's SQL Server 2005 Integration Services training course.

Just like well-written source code, "good looking" SSIS packages are easier to manage (edit/maintain) than sloppily laid out packages. Do you want to save yourself time? Then lay out your SSIS packages carefully so that you (or others) will understand what the package flow is when you revist this package three months from now.

Highlights from this video:

Using the new formatting options in the Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS)
Aligning sides and centers
Using the Visio-style controls to manipulate task-boxes and text
Formatting text annotations
Suggestions for auto-sizing
Manipulating hard-to-work-with text annotations easily
Horizontal and Vertical spacing options

and much more

SQL Server Video Tutorial - Subtotals and Grand Totals in SQL: GR OUPING SETS

2010-03-17T20:32:00.001-07:00

SQL Server 2008/2005 Query Writing Training Video: Subtotals and Grand Totals in SQL: GROUPING SETS

The final video on subtotals and grand totals in SQL covers GROUPING SETS. This will save you time and add flexibility to your queries.

Highlights from this video:

When should you use this?
Suppressing line items
Alternative syntax
What does GROUPING SETS return?

subtotals

and much more

This video is part of LearnItFirst's Writing Queries for SQL Server (2005/2008 Edition) training course.

SQL Server Video - Two Table JOIN Pattern: OUTER Natural JOINs

2010-03-17T08:32:00.001-07:00

SQL Server 2008/2005 Query Writing Video Tutorial: Two Table JOIN Pattern: OUTER Natural JOINs

A SQL Server training video from the LearnItFirst the web's largest IT Training Video Library

Two Table JOIN Pattern: OUTER Natural JOINs

This video will cover a design pattern for two table OUTER natural JOINs. In this video Scott will show you the design pattern, and work through a couple of examples with you.

Highlights from this video:

OUTER JOINs
Variation on INNER JOIN design pattern
Code examples
Design pattern

and much more

N.B.: This training video comes from LearnItFirst's Writing Queries for SQL Server (2005/2008 Edition) video course.

SQL Server Integration Services Training Video - Incremental Upda tes: Options Available for Performing Incremental Updates with SSIS, Part 1

2010-03-16T20:32:00.001-07:00

SQL 2008 Integration Services Screencast: Incremental Updates: Options Available for Performing Incremental Updates with SSIS, Part 1

This SSIS 2008 tutorial comes from the LearnItFirst IT Training Video Library.

Incremental Updates: Options Available for Performing Incremental Updates with SSIS, Part 1 (Screencast)

SQL Server Video Tutorial - Bonus Exercise: Two Table OUTER Joins

2010-03-16T08:32:00.001-07:00

SQL Server Screencast: Bonus Exercise: Two Table OUTER Joins

This training video is brought to you by the folks at LearnItFirst, one of the web's largest training videos companies.

Bonus Exercise: Two Table OUTER Joins

Description of this video:

Note: This video is from LearnItFirst.com's Writing Queries for SQL Server (2005/2008 Edition) training course.

This short two step exercise video will give you another opportunity to work with two table OUTER JOINs.

Highlights from this video:

Two table OUTER JOINs

and much more

SQL Server Video - Functions for Working with Dates: DATEPART, DA TENAME, YEAR, MONTH and more

2010-03-15T20:32:00.001-07:00

SQL Server Screencast: Functions for Working with Dates: DATEPART, DATENAME, YEAR, MONTH and more

This SQL Server 2005/2008 Queries tutorial comes from the LearnItFirst IT Training Video Library.

Functions for Working with Dates: DATEPART, DATENAME, YEAR, MONTH and more (Screencast)

ISA Server Tutorial Video - ISA Server Disaster Recovery: How to Restore Your ISA Server Settings From a Backup

2010-03-15T08:32:00.001-07:00

ISA 2006 Admin Tutorial Video: ISA Server Disaster Recovery: How to Restore Your ISA Server Settings From a Backup

The worst-case scenario has happened: your ISA Server settings are gone and/or your ISA Server is down (and your users are mad as you-know-what because they can no longer access the internet). How do you restore ISA Server? Can you get the internet working again?

Highlights from this video:

The concepts of the ISA restore
How to restore ISA Server from backup
Import vs. Overwrite: understanding the ISA Server restore options
Do you want to import server-specific information?
How to restore a remote ISA Server's backup to a new ISA Server
Do you want to import user permission settings?

and much more

This video is part of LearnItFirst's ISA Server 2006 Administration training course.

Visual Basic Video Tutorial - Pt. 1 - What Is Test driven Develop ment (TDD)? What are Unit Tests? How Can I Use Them?

2010-03-14T20:32:00.001-07:00

Visual Basic .NET Video Tutorial: Pt. 1 - What Is Test driven Development (TDD)? What are Unit Tests? How Can I Use Them?

This training video is brought to you by the folks at LearnItFirst, one of the web's largest training videos companies.

Pt. 1 - What Is Test driven Development (TDD)? What are Unit Tests? How Can I Use Them?

Description of this video:

Note: This video is from LearnItFirst.com's Visual Basic Programming with Visual Studio 2005 training course.

So many 'modern day' programmers do things completely backwards - they write the application code first and then, when things inevitably fail, they find themselves refactoring, rethinking, and just plain frustrated. Why, oh why, haven't more programmers learned the beauty of unit testing and test driven development (TDD)? If more programmers modernized their approaches to thinking about programming, they would find that they would save huge blocks of time and, in the process of saving time, write more efficient code.

Highlights from this video:

What is Test Driven Development (TDD)?
What are some of the core principles of TDD?
What are units? What are tests?
Why should I consider unit tests?

and much more

SQL Server Video Tutorial - Quick Demo: How to Create a SQL Server Login

2010-03-14T08:32:00.001-07:00

SQL Server Tutorial: Quick Demo: How to Create a SQL Server Login

A SQL Server training video from the LearnItFirst the web's largest IT Training Video Library

Quick Demo: How to Create a SQL Server Login

In this short video we will take a look at a demonstration of how to create a SQL Server login and what it looks like in the SQL Server Management Studio.

Highlights from this video:

How to create a new login
- Logging in with your newly created login
Diagram of logins
Using code to change databases

and much more

N.B.: This training video comes from LearnItFirst's SQL Server 2008 Database Administration video course.

SQL Server Video - ISNULL and COALESCE: The Two Trickiest Functio ns You Will Ever Meet, Part 2

2010-03-13T20:32:00.001-08:00

SQL Server Training: ISNULL and COALESCE: The Two Trickiest Functions You Will Ever Meet, Part 2

This SQL Server 2005/2008 Queries tutorial comes from the LearnItFirst IT Training Video Library.

ISNULL and COALESCE: The Two Trickiest Functions You Will Ever Meet, Part 2 (Video)

SQL Server Video - Pt 3 - How to Delete Duplicate Rows in a SQL S erver Table Using the Rank() Function

2010-03-13T08:32:00.001-08:00

MSSQL Programming and Query Writing Screencast: Pt 3 - How to Delete Duplicate Rows in a SQL Server Table Using the Rank() Function

This SQL Server Programming and Queries tutorial comes from the LearnItFirst IT Training Video Library.

Pt 3 - How to Delete Duplicate Rows in a SQL Server Table Using the Rank() Function (Screencast)

SharePoint Video - Performing a Parallel WSS 3.0 Install and Main taining WSS 2.0 and Existing Content

2010-03-12T20:32:00.001-08:00

SharePoint Screencast: Performing a Parallel WSS 3.0 Install and Maintaining WSS 2.0 and Existing Content

This video tutorial will demonstrate to you a parallel upgrade from WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0. Your instructor Grant will show you what a parallel upgrade will do as well as the step-by-step process for doing so.

Highlights:

Where did all my content from WSS 2.0 go?
How to access the old WSS 2.0�� site

This video is part of LearnItFirst's Building Portals with SharePoint 2007 training course.

SQL Server Video - Scoping of SET Commands - Connections, Stored Procedures, Batches and Functions

2010-03-12T08:32:00.001-08:00

MSSQL Programming and Query Writing Training Video: Scoping of SET Commands - Connections, Stored Procedures, Batches and Functions

This video continues our discussion of SET commands and how they work within/outside-of stored procedures. This video also has an excellent discussion of using brackets and double quotes to delimit objects with spaces and/or reserved keywords in the name. Should You Use Brackets or Double-Quotes to delimit objects? In other words, should you use [Order Details] or "Order Details"?

Note: This video was shot on SQL Server 2005 but the concepts are the same for SQL Server 2000.

Highlights from this video:

Using SET NOCOUNT ON inside stored procedures and triggers
DBCC USEROPTIONS
Discussion of Quoted Identifiers and SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS ON/OFF
Object delimiters and when to use double quotes instead of single quotes
Hierarchy of settable options: database-level, connection-level, stored procedures/triggers, hints
Using the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to view and change database-level connection options
How to change connection-level options
How the Query Analyzer and SSMS use connection-level options

This video is part of LearnItFirst's SQL Server Programming (SQL Server 2005/2000): Transact SQL training course.

Reporting Services Video Tutorial - Defining and Using SSL within SSRS

2010-03-11T20:32:00.001-08:00

SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Video: Defining and Using SSL within SSRS

This training video is brought to you by the folks at LearnItFirst, one of the web's largest training videos companies.

Defining and Using SSL within SSRS

Description of this video:

Note: This video is from LearnItFirst.com's SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services training course.

This is a short video that will only apply to a small amount of people who want to use SSL within SSRS. In this video Scott will show you how to configure SSRS to use SSL.

Highlights from this video:

What is SSL?

Secure Sockets Layer
https://

How to get SSL certificate installed in SSRS

not covered in this video

and much more

SQL Server Video Tutorial - How to Remove/Uninstall Reporting Ser vices Completely

2010-03-11T08:32:00.001-08:00

SQL 2005 Reporting Services Training: How to Remove/Uninstall Reporting Services Completely

A SQL Server training video from the LearnItFirst the web's largest IT Training Video Library

How to Remove/Uninstall Reporting Services Completely

This video tutorial will walk you through the tricky process of removing every aspect and trace of reporting services from your machine without removing your SQL Server.

Highlights from this video:

From where do I uninstall SSRS?
Clean-up work after the removal
How to tell if there was a successful uninstall

and much more!

N.B.: This training video comes from LearnItFirst's SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services video course.

SQL Server Video Tutorial - Quick Demo: How to Create a SQL Server Login

2010-03-10T20:32:00.001-08:00

SQL Server Tutorial Video: Quick Demo: How to Create a SQL Server Login

A SQL Server training video from the LearnItFirst the web's largest IT Training Video Library

Quick Demo: How to Create a SQL Server Login

In this short video we will take a look at a demonstration of how to create a SQL Server login and what it looks like in the SQL Server Management Studio.

Highlights from this video:

How to create a new login
- Logging in with your newly created login
Diagram of logins
Using code to change databases

and much more

N.B.: This training video comes from LearnItFirst's SQL Server 2008 Database Administration video course.

SQL Server Integration Services Training Video - Pt. 4b - In Plac e Upgrade of SQL Server 2000 DTS to SQL Server 2005 SSIS

2010-03-10T08:32:00.001-08:00

SSIS 2005 Screencast: Pt. 4b - In Place Upgrade of SQL Server 2000 DTS to SQL Server 2005 SSIS

This SSIS 2005 tutorial comes from the LearnItFirst IT Training Video Library.

Pt. 4b - In Place Upgrade of SQL Server 2000 DTS to SQL Server 2005 SSIS (Screencast)

SQL Server Video Tutorial - Using GROUP BY with Aggregates

2010-03-09T20:32:00.001-08:00

SQL Server Training: Using GROUP BY with Aggregates

This video will introduce the GROUP BY. Scott will show you how you can use the GROUP BY with aggregates. Scott will also show you how to use SQL error messages to diagnose your queries.

Highlights from this video:

Diagnosing queries through error messages
What is the GROUP BY?
Using GROUP BY with aggregates
All aggregates return a many-to-one query

and much more

This video is part of LearnItFirst's Writing Queries for SQL Server (2005/2008 Edition) training course.

SQL Server Integration Services Training Video - How to Send Emai l Using the Script Task (VB)

2010-03-08T20:32:00.001-08:00

SQL 2008 Integration Services Tutorial Video: How to Send Email Using the Script Task (VB)

This SSIS 2008 tutorial comes from the LearnItFirst IT Training Video Library.

How to Send Email Using the Script Task (VB) (Screencast)

SQL Server Integration Services Training Video - An Overview of t he Options for Saving Files: File System, Package Store, and msdb Storage

2010-03-08T08:32:00.001-08:00

SSIS 2008 Video Tutorial: An Overview of the Options for Saving Files: File System, Package Store, and msdb Storage

This video will cover how you will actually manage (save and deploy) the SSIS packages. You will learn different places and ways to store the SSIS packages, and the advantages and disadvantages of each system.

Highlights from this video:

Creating a new package
Advantages of the File System
How do you send a package?
.dtsx files

and much more

This video is part of LearnItFirst's SQL Server 2008 Integration Services training course.

SQL Server Integration Services Tutorial - Pt. 5b - In Place Upgr ade of SQL Server 2000 DTS to SQL Server 2005 SSIS

2010-03-07T20:32:00.001-08:00

SSIS 2005 Screencast: Pt. 5b - In Place Upgrade of SQL Server 2000 DTS to SQL Server 2005 SSIS

This SSIS 2005 tutorial comes from the LearnItFirst IT Training Video Library.

Pt. 5b - In Place Upgrade of SQL Server 2000 DTS to SQL Server 2005 SSIS (Screencast)

SQL Server Training Video - Exercise: Understanding the LearnItFi rstWorks_Lite Database

2010-03-07T08:32:00.001-08:00

SQL Server 2008/2005 Query Writing Video: Exercise: Understanding the LearnItFirstWorks_Lite Database

A SQL Server training video from the LearnItFirst the web's largest IT Training Video Library

Exercise: Understanding the LearnItFirstWorks_Lite Database

In the previous video Scott gave an overview of the LearnItFirstWorks_Lite database. In this exercise video you will get the opportunity to work with the database in order to understand it better.

Highlights from this video:

How many product descriptions are there?
How many top-level product categories are there?
What are the foreign key columns in the SalesOrderHeader table?
Script out the table definition for the SalesOrderDetail table

and much more

N.B.: This training video comes from LearnItFirst's Writing Queries for SQL Server (2005/2008 Edition) video course.

C# Training Video - Part 7 - More Regular Expressions Syntax and Case Sensitivity

2010-03-06T20:32:00.001-08:00

C# Screencast: Part 7 - More Regular Expressions Syntax and Case Sensitivity

This C# tutorial comes from the LearnItFirst IT Training Video Library.

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SQL Server Video Tutorial - The JOIN Condition is the Key to Writ ing JOINs

SQL Server Training Video: The JOIN Condition is the Key to Writing JOINs

SQL Server Integration Services Video - Chapter Introduction: Wha t Is Included

SQL Server Integration Services Video: Chapter Introduction: What Is Included

Chapter Introduction: What Is Included (Video)

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SQL Server Integration Services Video Tutorial - Formatting Optio ns in SSIS - How to Make Your Packages More Manageable

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SharePoint Video - Performing a Parallel WSS 3.0 Install and Main taining WSS 2.0 and Existing Content

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SQL Server Integration Services Training Video - Pt. 4b - In Plac e Upgrade of SQL Server 2000 DTS to SQL Server 2005 SSIS

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SQL Server Video Tutorial - Using GROUP BY with Aggregates

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