Introduction to SQL
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Join this course to acquire the essential skills in SQL, empowering marketers, product managers, analytics and developers to efficiently collect and analyze data.
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What you'll learn
This project-free course will introduce you to the basics of the SQL query language. You do not need to know other programming languages to complete this course. However, it is useful for anyone who wants to learn how to work with data and how databases operate. And what's more, you can use this course as a guide and material for future reference.
You will:
- get to know how to request, update, and delete data using basic SQL operators;
- learn how to work with MySQL;
- discover how to extract data and process them using SQL;
- be able to make queries without using other programming languages;
- find out how to use SQL functions in real-life tasks.
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3 weeks ago
Some parts are well done, other are a bit rushed so you need to put extra work if you don't already have some SQL knowledge. Useful for a quick refresh, but the practice part is quite shallow and it's better if you write a lot of queries somewhere else to fully understand the material.
Fuseini Salifu
3 weeks ago
I enjoyed the course a lot. I just wish the practice questions after the theories where practical-heavy instead of just asking theory-specific question. For example, instead of asking about how UNION ALL is used, provide more practical problems that involve using the UNION ALL knowledge, etc.
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Issue date August 7, 2026
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