Microsoft SQL Server Practice Exercises: Essential Techniques for Mastering the Framework

Here is a short practice for Microsoft SQL Server:

1. Open SQL Server Management Studio and connect to your SQL Server instance.
2. Create a new database called “PracticeDB”.
3. Create a new table called “employees” with the following columns:

• “id” (integer)
• “first_name” (varchar(50))
• “last_name” (varchar(50))
• “position” (varchar(100))
• “salary” (decimal(10,2))

4. Insert the following data into the “employees” table:

• (1, ‘John’, ‘Doe’, ‘Manager’, 80000)
• (2, ‘Jane’, ‘Doe’, ‘Developer’, 75000)
• (3, ‘Jim’, ‘Smith’, ‘Tester’, 65000)
• (4, ‘Amy’, ‘Johnson’, ‘Designer’, 70000)

5. Retrieve all data from the “employees” table and order the results by salary in ascending order.
6. Update the position of employee with id 3 to ‘QA Engineer’.
7. Delete the employee with id 4 from the “employees” table.
8. Retrieve the first name and last name of all employees who have a salary greater than $70,000.

By following these steps, you will practice basic SQL commands such as SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE and gain experience with managing data in Microsoft SQL Server.