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Learn SQL

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Overview

Learn to communicate with databases using SQL, the standard data management language.

### Why Learn SQL?

We live in a data-driven world: people search through data to find insights to inform strategy, marketing, operations, and a plethora of other categories. There are a ton of businesses that use large, relational databases, which makes a basic understanding of SQL a great employable skill not only for data scientists, but for almost everyone.

### Take-Away Skills:

In this course, you'll learn how to communicate with relational databases through SQL. You'll learn—and practice with 4 projects—how to manipulate data and build queries that communicate with more than one table.

Syllabus

  • Manipulation: Learn how to use SQL to access, create, and update data stored in a database.
    • Lesson: Manipulation
    • Quiz: Manipulation
    • Project: Create a Table
    • Article: What is SQLite?
  • Queries: Perform more complex queries by learning essential query keywords and functionality
    • Lesson: Queries
    • Quiz: Queries
    • Project: New York Restaurants
  • Aggregate Functions: Learn powerful functions for performing complex database operations with ease.
    • Lesson: Aggregate Functions
    • Quiz: Aggregate Functions
    • Project: Trends in Startups
    • Project: Analyze Hacker News Trends
  • Multiple Tables: Expand your SQL skills by creating and manipulating databases with multiple related tables
    • Lesson: Multiple Tables
    • Project: Lyft Trip Data
    • Quiz: Multiple Tables

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