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About the Course

As data collection has increased exponentially, so has the need for people skilled at using and interacting with data; to be able to think critically, and provide insights to make better decisions and optimize their businesses. This is a data scientist, “part mathematician, part computer scientist, and part trend spotter” (SAS Institute, Inc.). According to Glassdoor, being a data scientist is the best job in America; with a median base salary of $110,000 and thousands of job openings at a time. The skills necessary to be a good data scientist include being able to retrieve and work with data, and to do that you need to be well versed in SQL, the standard language for communicating with database systems. This course is designed to give you a primer in the fundamentals of SQL and working with data so that you can begin analyzing it for data science purposes. You will begin to ask the right questions and come up with good answers to deliver valuable insights for your organization. This course starts with the basics and assumes you do not have any knowledge or skills in SQL. It will build on that foundation and gradually have you write both simple and complex queries to help you select data from tables. You'll start to work with different types of data like strings and numbers and discuss methods to filter and pare down your results. You will create new tables and be able to move data into them. You will learn common operators and how to combine the data. You will use case statements and concepts like data governance and profiling. You will discuss topics on data, and practice using real-world programming assignments. You will interpret the structure, meaning, and relationships in source data and use SQL as a professional to shape your data for targeted analysis purposes. Although we do not have any specific prerequisites or software requirements to take this course, a simple text editor is recommended for the final project. So what are you waiting for? This is your first step in landing a job in the best occupation in the US and soon the world!...

Top reviews

SM

Mar 15, 2020

Good course for beginners.- classes are fine- quizzes evaluate quite well your understanding I think- the final assessment contains plenty of VERY ambiguous questions and I think it should be reworked

MV

Jul 19, 2020

Please Included examples while the instructor is teaching in the video lectures. The instructor is very talented in teaching but due to lack of examples in the video it downgrades the overall course.

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By Volodymyr K

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Jul 25, 2018

Great course! I gained very good knowledge

By Mustafa A J

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Jul 20, 2018

Thanks for the course it was really nice .

By ANGEL D P

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Jul 11, 2025

Very good content with practical exercise

By Carlo E

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Nov 19, 2023

good starting point to learn programming!

By Stefan

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Jul 16, 2023

Very nice introduction, great excercises.

By Iván R

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Sep 16, 2022

Great info tin this course and practice.

By AB

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Sep 5, 2022

Nice and useful course for the beginners

By Ignacio T

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Jun 27, 2022

Really good for getting started with SQL.

By Supun I

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May 20, 2022

I really learnt a lot taking this course.

By Diego M B V

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Mar 27, 2022

Why don't you give us the lecture slides?

By Israel M M

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Jan 12, 2022

I like it it is simple and easy to follow

By Nicanor O

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Nov 2, 2021

Perfect, very compliant with the teaching

By Abhishek J

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Oct 20, 2021

The best course with better understanding

By Johnnathan C

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Oct 10, 2021

Amazing course! Take your time and learn.

By zhang m

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Sep 22, 2021

really helpful and inspiring for starters

By Raviteja M

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Apr 20, 2021

Best SQL course to learn in the Coursera.

By AWAIS A

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Jan 25, 2021

great course it help me a lot in database

By Micol C

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Oct 23, 2020

Great course and assignments to exercise!

By Sasanko S G

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Oct 16, 2020

Excellent SQL Structures and assignments.

By Zhenkun H

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Sep 26, 2020

Very good course! I really appreciate it!

By Ghulam M A

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Sep 12, 2020

no doubt , great instructor, appreaciated

By nakul S

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Aug 11, 2020

Exceptional and practical oriented course

By Toe T

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Aug 2, 2020

Thanks a lot for your Coursera knowledge.

By Javier E

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Jun 22, 2020

Very valuable course. Thank you Sadie! :)

By Alexander P

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May 18, 2020

Easy to comprehend, pleasant to complete.