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About the Course

Working knowledge of SQL (or Structured Query Language) is a must for data professionals like Data Scientists, Data Analysts and Data Engineers. Much of the world's data resides in databases. SQL is a powerful language used for communicating with and extracting data from databases. In this course you will learn SQL inside out- from the very basics of Select statements to advanced concepts like JOINs. You will: -write foundational SQL statements like: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE -filter result sets, use WHERE, COUNT, DISTINCT, and LIMIT clauses -differentiate between DML & DDL -CREATE, ALTER, DROP and load tables -use string patterns and ranges; ORDER and GROUP result sets, and built-in database functions -build sub-queries and query data from multiple tables -access databases as a data scientist using Jupyter notebooks with SQL and Python -work with advanced concepts like Stored Procedures, Views, ACID Transactions, Inner & Outer JOINs through hands-on labs and projects You will practice building SQL queries, work with real databases on the Cloud, and use real data science tools. In the final project you’ll analyze multiple real-world datasets to demonstrate your skills....

Top reviews

BS

May 20, 2020

Amazing course for beginners! The entire course is well structured and has good hands-on assignments. SQL is extremely essential for Database management and fun learning so please do try this one out!

SR

Aug 25, 2022

I am thankful to coursera for providing database and sql for data science course in such a way that anyone can

understand the basic fundamental of sql and database. I learn a lot from this course.

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By Soh J

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Mar 10, 2020

The lesson and video itself is okay in general, but the bugs for the labs and assignment is what makes this course very annoying and time consuming.

By Mohammad R

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Jun 24, 2022

very short descriptive course, i had previous knowledge of sql so it was much easier for me but for a beginner it was not comprehensive i would say

By Abdul A

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Apr 26, 2022

multiple times facing issues with external tool, it won't open, the link to download data sets don't work. I couldn't complete the course on time.

By Sreeja G

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Nov 13, 2023

Everything else was fine BUT the instruction set for the final assignment was EXTREMELY CONFUSING... unlike any other Coursera course that I took.

By Deleted A

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Oct 22, 2021

the third party tool failed and it was incredibly frustrating to try and move everything to Watson Studio. Once I got that going tho it was fine.

By Roger S P M

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Dec 29, 2018

Getting the right syntax for Python and SQL together was really tricky/difficult. I wish there were a reference book/website for additional study.

By Kyle S

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May 16, 2020

The basics were easy. The hard part were the instructions in the course didn't tell you all the steps that you needed to do to launch the labs.

By Akash C

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Oct 26, 2019

Some of the documents which are referring to IBM cloud are outdated. Otherwise this course is really good some one like who is beginner in SQL.

By Julio C R

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Nov 17, 2021

The course was pretty dull in my opinion. My overall thought is that they are trying to impress the student rather than teaching the basics.

By Linh T

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Mar 5, 2023

I experience with technology issue that caused my time and delay my completion of the course. Hope it will be better in my future courses.

By Robert C

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Apr 25, 2020

Instruction is overall pretty good, but there are some gaps. Final assignment and tech issues can lead to a rather frustrating experience.

By Matthew A

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May 12, 2019

This course was OK, but I'd still like to see more hands-on exercises and a final assignment that's more aligned to the prior coursework

By Yike

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Jun 26, 2019

Assignment marked by other classmates is not a correct method. classmates often do not read answer carefully and give a correct grade.

By Anisha Z

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Mar 30, 2020

Does a good job explaining SQL queries. But the final assignment has to be designed better. There are too many repetitive questions.

By Marcus V

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Aug 6, 2018

The last exercise of the last week is not clear how to do it and the server does not run it. There is no assistance from the forum.

By Linda K

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Dec 29, 2021

I had difficulty accessing libraries and found discrepancies between instructions and IBM UI.

The course material was pretty good.

By Arda U

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Feb 18, 2021

Instructions for the labs were not clear and indeed IBM DB2 was a little laggy and was not quite an easy platform for a beginner.

By SRIDHAR S (

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Dec 23, 2022

inclusion of proprietary IBM software made understanding the concepts difficult. other than that the ideas covered were good.

By Rafael P S

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Nov 9, 2021

For those who have never worked with SQL this is a good course. For anyone who has worked with SQL, it's like rain in the wet.

By Hashem A

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Jan 5, 2022

The course great. however, some problems was faced during week 4 only. I'm glad about the instructors was doing awesome help.

By Leonardo A R P

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Oct 25, 2019

It's nice and it teaches you about SQL, but it lacks practice exercises and sometimes is oversimplified and can be too easy.

By Rachel L

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Jun 18, 2023

Most course material had errors and would not load, databases would not properly import data tp actually practice querying.

By Nikolaos M

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Oct 16, 2021

The content of the course is good, but the coding notebooks of the last weeks are full of bugs, which is quite irretating.

By Geetanshi G

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Jul 21, 2022

So many issues with IBM db2. Videos were good. Kindly add the same interface in labs as its originally present on IBM Db2

By Yash A B

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Jul 4, 2019

Great course for learning how to access Cloud Databases using SQL commands with Python! not so great if you are new to SQL