Learn SQL databases in a weekend

SQL crash-course with everything you need to jump into database programming projects. Learn it all in a single weekend!

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What You Will Learn!

Understand what SQL databases are and how to work with them
Be able to jump in a project requiring SQL knowledge
Create your own SQL database with multiple tables
Write simple SQL queries to fetch the data you need
Have a stable basis for further exploration of more advanced SQL topics
Find community help and documentation for SQL
Use SQL databases in Python, Java and other programming languages

Description

This is an intensive crash-course of SQL databases, the absolute essence. It contains everything you need to know to jump into real SQL database projects. And you can do it in a single weekend!

You will learn:

What SQL databases are and how they are structured
How to set up the necessary tools to get started
How to CREATE TABLEs and modify their structure later
How to export the data and table structure to a backup-file, and restore a database from a backup
How to INSERT data
How to write queries to SELECT the necessary data, including WHERE conditions, ORDERing, aggregation and GROUP BY, conditions * and functions.
What the mysterious NULL values are and why they behave so weirdly
How to DELETE data
How to UPDATE data
How to link together tables and select data from multiple tables using JOINs

The course contains a great deal of practical exercises:

Short quizzes to test your understanding along the way
Exercises in every section, including an extensive set of exercises using multi-table SELECTs with JOIN
A course project in Python and Java where you will read data from an SQL databases in your program

We will use the MySQL database engine - one of the most popular choices of SQL, a free and open-source solution.

Check out the free videos and see you in the course!