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Querying With Transact-SQL: Lab 7 - Using Table Expressions

This document provides an overview of Lab 7 in the course "Querying with Transact-SQL" which focuses on using table expressions like views, temporary tables, variables, table-valued functions, derived tables, and common table expressions to retrieve data from the AdventureWorksLT database. The lab contains two challenges: the first involves writing queries to retrieve product information using various table expressions, and the second involves creating queries to return the total revenue for each customer including company and contact name by using a derived table or common table expression. Upon completing the lab challenges, students are ready to learn about grouping sets and pivoting data in the next module.

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Querying With Transact-SQL: Lab 7 - Using Table Expressions

This document provides an overview of Lab 7 in the course "Querying with Transact-SQL" which focuses on using table expressions like views, temporary tables, variables, table-valued functions, derived tables, and common table expressions to retrieve data from the AdventureWorksLT database. The lab contains two challenges: the first involves writing queries to retrieve product information using various table expressions, and the second involves creating queries to return the total revenue for each customer including company and contact name by using a derived table or common table expression. Upon completing the lab challenges, students are ready to learn about grouping sets and pivoting data in the next module.

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Querying with Transact-SQL

Lab 7 – Using Table Expressions

Overview
In this lab, you will use views, temporary tables, variables, table-valued functions, derived tables, and
common table expressions to retrieve data from the AdventureWorksLT database.

Before starting this lab, you should view Module 7 – Using Table Expressions in the Course Querying
with Transact-SQL. Then, if you have not already done so, follow the instructions in the Getting Started
document for this course to set up the lab environment.

If you find some of the challenges difficult, don’t worry – you can find suggested solutions for all of the
challenges in the Lab Solution folder for this module.

What You’ll Need


 An Azure SQL Database instance with the AdventureWorksLT sample database. Review the
Getting Started document for information about how to provision this.

Challenge 1: Retrieve Product Information


Adventure Works sells many products that are variants of the same product model. You must write
queries that retrieve information about these products

1. Retrieve product model descriptions


Retrieve the product ID, product name, product model name, and product model summary for each
product from the SalesLT.Product table and the SalesLT.vProductModelCatalogDescription view.

2. Create a table of distinct colors


Tip: Review the documentation for Variables in Transact-SQL Language Reference.

Create a table variable and populate it with a list of distinct colors from the SalesLT.Product table. Then
use the table variable to filter a query that returns the product ID, name, and color from the
SalesLT.Product table so that only products with a color listed in the table variable are returned.

3. Retrieve product parent categories


The AdventureWorksLT database includes a table-valued function named dbo.ufnGetAllCategories,
which returns a table of product categories (for example ‘Road Bikes’) and parent categories (for
example ‘Bikes’). Write a query that uses this function to return a list of all products including their
parent category and category.
4. Retrieve products that have an average selling price that is lower than the cost
Filter your previous query to include only products where the cost price is higher than the average
selling price.

Challenge 2: Retrieve Customer Sales Revenue


Each Adventure Works customer is a retail company with a named contact. You must create queries that
return the total revenue for each customer, including the company and customer contact names.

Tip: Review the documentation for the WITH common_table_expression syntax in the Transact-SQL
language reference.

1. Retrieve sales revenue by customer and contact


Retrieve a list of customers in the format Company (Contact Name) together with the total revenue for
that customer. Use a derived table or a common table expression to retrieve the details for each sales
order, and then query the derived table or CTE to aggregate and group the data.

Next Steps
Well done! You’ve completed the lab, and you’re ready to learn how to summarize data by specifying
grouping sets and pivoting data in Module 8 – Grouping Sets and Pivoting Data in the Course Querying
with Transact-SQL.

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