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About the Course

Much of the world's data lives in databases. SQL (or Structured Query Language) is a powerful programming language that is used for communicating with and manipulating data in databases. A working knowledge of databases and SQL is a must for anyone who wants to start a career in Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, Data Analytics, Data Science or Business Intelligence. The purpose of this course is to help you learn and apply foundational and intermediate knowledge of the SQL language, and become familiar with many relational database (RDBMS) concepts along the way. You will start with performing basic Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) operations using CREATE, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements. You will then learn to filter, order, sort, and aggregate data. You will work with functions, perform sub-selects and nested queries, as well as JOIN data in multiple tables. You will also work with VIEWS, transactions and create stored procedures. The emphasis in this course is on hands-on, practical learning. As such, you will work with real database systems, use real tools, and real-world datasets. You will create a database instance in the cloud. Through a series of hands-on labs, you will practice building and running SQL queries. At the end of the course you will apply and demonstrate your skills with a final project. The SQL skills you learn in this course will be applicable to a variety of RDBMSes such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, IBM Db2, Oracle, SQL Server and others. No prior knowledge of databases, SQL or programming is required, however some basic data literacy is beneficial....

Top reviews

Mar 7, 2024

Though there are a few mistakes throughout the course, and the labs were not working for a part of the course, overall the course has good useful information.

May 24, 2025

i have completed the whole course but then also i am noy getting any certificate downloading option

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By Daniel T

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Sep 22, 2024

Very frustrating to use the provided interface. I had to create and recreate my databases and create and recreate my sql queries several times, because they would disappear between login sessions. I don't know if there was a way to save my work, but I didn't see a way to do so

By Mykola K

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Jul 20, 2025

The material largely duplicates the material from this module "Introduction to Relational Databases (RDBMS)"

By Janet A

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Apr 10, 2024

it was a good experince

By JUAN D A H

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Aug 31, 2025

labs do not work sometimes.. and lectures feel as if they made by AI. There are many better way to learn SQL.

By Xiaojuan L

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Aug 12, 2023

way too fundamental

exercises duplicates themselves and a lot of repeats....

By Daniel

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Oct 5, 2025

The course says for beginners, but this isn't how beginners should be thought. It lacks a human touch as well. Three lessons into the course, and no human showed up, just AI reading the transcript.