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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

GC

Dec 29, 2022

Great course! A solid way to introduce a learner to programming in SQL!! Sadie is an amazing online instructor! Thank you to Sadie and UC Davis for offering this course through the Coursera platform!!

NK

Oct 5, 2022

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!

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By Rakshit D

Feb 11, 2021

Excellent course to understand SQL and important points and hints are covered. Assignment, Questionairs and Peer-Graded project is very helpful.

By Kristina M

Oct 25, 2020

Great material and lectures that cover a lot of great material. Instructor made it feel like an in-person class and was very pleasant and clear.

By Paulo F

Feb 9, 2020

Sadie was wonderfull and all te materials where a great help! Enjoyed doing the assignment! This will help be a great deal on my day to day job!

By Saurabh P

Jan 7, 2019

An amazing course! Covers so many topics in these lectures yet it feels like it was just done so easily and the way of teaching is just amazing.

By Tushna M

Jan 15, 2022

Very well structured & good instructor. Assumes no prior knowledge of SQL. Gives confidence to write basic/intermediate SQL queries by the end.

By Emilio G P

Nov 25, 2020

I started learning SQL from 0 and it has been a nice course to follow to have a good basic understanding of what SQL is. I highly recommend it.

By Aveek A

Nov 17, 2020

Very impressive course for beginners to learn all about SQL. This course is very in depth learning and lots of exercises to practice and learn.

By Rishi P

Jun 30, 2020

I liked the lectures of the course a lot. They were informative while being concise. The assignment at the end was the best part in my opinion.

By Sourabh S

Jun 21, 2020

Such a great course provided by Coursera with great teaching faculty who made this course very easy to understand by giving real life examples.

By David M S

Apr 17, 2020

Very nice course. I knew nothing about SQL and now I can say that I am very satisfied with my achievements through this course.

100% recommended

By Myrich L

Aug 6, 2023

Sadie did a fantastic job on explaining SQL to beginners. Even someone with no coding or data analysis background will benefit to this course.

By Luis R

May 20, 2022

I very much enjoyed this course! I already had some decent SQL knowledge from my job coming in here but still feel like I learned a good bit!

By Josh T

Apr 21, 2022

Seemed like a good, well-rounded course. There were a few things that may have not been super clear, but overall I feel like I learned a lot.

By Jessica S

Jul 2, 2021

The course was easy to follow and the assignments were clear. I am so glad I decided to take this course to solidify my understanding of SQL!

By Joann Y

Sep 21, 2020

This was a really well done course for SQL for beginners. I really felt that it helped me understand the foundational concepts needed for SQL.

By Rita K

Apr 1, 2020

Very well structured and clearly presented. I was new to SQL when I started and now I can run actual queries against databases and they work!

By Sonia O

Jun 2, 2022

This course is very complete, recommended for everyone that any want to learn the basic of SQL. And the instructor explain of way wonderful.

By Janus F

Dec 12, 2021

I really enjoyed learning SQL through this course. I have never done anything like this before and found it very informative and practical.

By Sochneva E

Oct 5, 2019

I knew SQL before this course. But it was useful and interesting for me. I had a good time. Lector has good pronunciation. Use it, recomend)

By Esther N

Sep 10, 2018

I would say that this course was simplified in layman's term yet very powerful and technical when it comes to querying techniques or syntax.

By Felipe A

Aug 29, 2022

Excellent and very pedagogical course for people in my situation, transitioning from an academic job to data science in the private sector.

By Nicole

Nov 29, 2021

Gostei muito, a professora explica de forma simples e é bem fácil pra entender, eu não sabia nada de SQL e consegui aprender muitas coisas.

By Pablo N

Oct 21, 2021

Great introductory course. If you know basic excel functions, you'll have no problem understanding the logic behind the commands using SQL.

By Gaurang K

Jun 27, 2020

It was fun doing this course. I learnt a lot of things regarding data analysis and I am able to improve my skills regarding SQL. Great Job!

By Ameer A

May 20, 2020

One of the best course for Beginners, The practice module and peer assignments helps a lot to work on our own methods to identify solution.