Course description

SQL Programming Fundamentals is your essential introduction to the language of data. Structured for aspiring data scientists, analysts, and developers, this course equips you with the foundational skills to query, manipulate, and manage data using SQL, the most widely used language for working with relational databases.

Through interactive lessons and hands-on projects, you’ll learn how to retrieve insights from structured datasets, perform complex data transformations, and build queries that answer real-world analytical questions. Whether you’re exploring customer behavior, analyzing sales trends, or building data-driven dashboards, SQL will be your core tool, and this course will help you master it.

By the end of this course, you’ll be confident in writing efficient, readable SQL queries, joining tables, filtering data, aggregating results, and preparing datasets for analysis, all while understanding best practices that scale from personal projects to production environments.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Understand relational databases and how SQL interacts with them
• Perform data selection, filtering, sorting, and aggregation
• Join and combine data across multiple tables
• Use subqueries, common table expressions (CTEs), and window functions
• Apply SQL for real-world analysis tasks in data science workflows
• Gain confidence in writing clean, efficient, and powerful queries

What will i learn?

• Understand the structure and role of relational databases
• Create and manage tables, schemas, and databases using SQL
• Write SQL queries to insert, update, delete, and retrieve data
• Use filtering, sorting, joins, subqueries, and aggregate functions
• Analyze and derive insights from structured data
• Understand database normalization and indexing concepts
• Apply SQL skills to real-world scenarios and datasets

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