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Learner Reviews & Feedback for SQL Foundations by Microsoft

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About the Course

Learn the fundamentals of SQL with Microsoft SQL Server in this introductory course. You'll learn to write basic and intermediate queries to extract and analyze data while understanding relational database concepts. Through hands-on exercises with SQL Server Management Studio, you'll practice filtering data with WHERE clauses, sorting results with ORDER BY, and transforming data with built-in functions. This course also introduces you to database schemas, tables, and views, providing a foundation for understanding data structure. Additionally, you'll explore how generative AI tools can assist with SQL query development, reflecting modern workplace practices. By completing this course, you'll build confidence writing T-SQL queries and be prepared for more advanced data manipulation techniques....

Top reviews

HA

Oct 3, 2025

An amazing course, through which one gets the exposure of writing powerful queries in MSSQL using very powerful tools such as VS Code and GitHub CoPilot

RR

Jan 17, 2026

Excellent beginner to intermediate course for anyone looking to gain an understanding of SQL and database management.

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By Private U

Feb 25, 2026

None of the practice labs and databases actually work. No instructors respond to requests for help in the forum and Coursera was abysmal at responding to help request (their chatbot is even more useless). Had to unenroll because you can't actually proceed with the work.

By Chris C

Jan 16, 2026

This course is old. It needs to be updated. Spots in labs were not possible to complete (simple actions such as rounding to X digits etc.). I can accept that, a quick search out of Coursera gave me the information that I needed. The big complaint I have is the last section of the last module where you need to sign up for a github account. That account is free, but there is now a paid requirement for the AI Copilot integration to be able to complete the labs. Even though there is a 30 day free trial, if I were to go on to the second class, I would end up needing to pay for the access. I am already paying for the course. This seems quite disingenuous. The course needs a good scrub and update.

By Alyssa G

Jul 24, 2025

Microsoft's approach to this is horrible, in my opinion. The brief introduction to SQL within Google's Cybersecurity certificate was much more straightforward. This course, at least so far, is chaotic. To start with, Pseudocode wasn't actually described (no intro into what it was or why it was necessary), but then there's a video on how to do it. Then you're expected to write your own, but again, no reasons why. In the next lab, not only does it bounce all over the place within the databases without telling you to change databases, but in its "utilize the below code structure to get you started" section, it structured code in the following way: FROM -- your code here. This indicates that dashes (--) should be used after a FROM clause. This is absolutely inaccurate, but including this in an example is incredibly misleading. I'm learning more on how to use SQL from using a search engine than I am from this course. Just all over the place, poorly laid out, and not intuitive teaching methods in this course. I'm really disappointed.

By Ray C

Nov 18, 2025

Absolutely hate this course. By the time you have to jump around to all of the items to read or participate in, you are exhausted and learned to follow steps, not actually concepts or sql. The build in lab items are horrendous.

By Elvin K

Sep 2, 2025

This course is excellent! It was very well structured in a way that made the material easy to understand. I now have more confidence in my SQL stills. Having a solid foundation of fundamentals is a great way to ease learning new things.

By Muhammad L

Dec 22, 2025

I highly recommend this course because each module is demonstrated in great detail. The unique material on GitHub Copilot truly helps beginners learn SQL effectively.

By Hossam A

Oct 4, 2025

An amazing course, through which one gets the exposure of writing powerful queries in MSSQL using very powerful tools such as VS Code and GitHub CoPilot

By Ronnie R

Jan 18, 2026

Excellent beginner to intermediate course for anyone looking to gain an understanding of SQL and database management.

By Scarlett R

Oct 5, 2025

muy excelente con los laboratorios se puede practicar y afianzar los conocimientos

By Ricardo S

Nov 13, 2025

Bien explicado entre las tareas y los laboratorios queda mas claro cada tema

By Brayan N C

Dec 4, 2025

Buen curso, me gusto mucho lo que se enseña en la parte basica

By juan d u

Oct 3, 2025

excelentes explicaciones, ejemplos , graficos y tematica

By John M F

Jul 12, 2025

Excellent course for SQL Foundations!

By Rawan

Nov 22, 2025

I was very happy learning smoothly

By Christopher T

Nov 29, 2025

Easy to Learn and Understand

By Suganthi S

Nov 20, 2025

very easy to understand

By Dina M

Nov 7, 2025

Great Interactive Class

By Antonia G M

Dec 7, 2025

Ideal para comenzar

By JANAYLLA F D S

Jan 22, 2026

Muito bom o curso

By Hernan A

Jul 23, 2025

Muy bueno!

By Thuấn Đ M

Dec 29, 2025

Thank you

By Adireddy S S

Jul 3, 2025

good

By Tristin L

Aug 27, 2025

I enjoyed the read through portion, but the non-demonstrational videos were time consuming and not necessary to the lessons. I know how they may help some individuals, but they were not useful in my situation

By Jenifer M

Oct 8, 2025

This was an excellent course to get started. I did have some issues with the VS Code database on occasion but was able to restart the lab and get it working.

By Hernan e

Dec 17, 2025

Creo que seria bueno dejar tareas para resolver o ejercicios que ayuden a practicar a como la base de datos