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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 Karan A

Oct 29, 2019

Its a good course to get the basics of SQL right. I liked the final assignment of analyzing a data set and providing our analysis on it.

By GOLI T S

Jun 10, 2021

This course is soo good. Sadie. St. Lawrence mam explanation is very good. I had started learning SQLite . This is my first SQL course.

By Luis A

Feb 6, 2021

I really enjoy taking this course. I already new a lot of stuff, but it is always good remebering and dig more for knowledge. Thank you

By Judy W

Dec 28, 2020

I think the provided database and coding system is very easy to use. and the final project "yelp"database is a great real-life practice

By Phát P T H

Nov 9, 2022

The knowledge is very useful and easy for the newbie to follow. It is my fortune to find out about this course and learn it carefully.

By Lucas H

Jun 21, 2022

Very informative and I learned a lot. The practice quizzes really helped me understand the material in time for the final assignment.

By rachel n

Nov 15, 2021

Sadie does an excellent job at presenting the information at hand and providing examples and tools to solve the tasks and assignments.

By Duaa M A H

Dec 7, 2020

Thank you very much for this amazing course!

I've learnt so much from it and it would really help me with my work in database testing.

By Afonso M

Jun 15, 2020

Very good for getting you from 0 to a sufficently good level of SQL. A great building block to becoming very good and coding with SQL.

By Anna Z

May 17, 2020

Great course for beginners! Great instructor, explaining concepts clearly. It is definitely worth taking for anyone dealing with data.

By Björn J

Feb 20, 2020

I really learned a lot in a short time. This course is a great start if one wants to learn SQL. I can absolutly recommend this course!

By Anya S

May 30, 2019

The course provide basic solid understanding how the querying work.

I would recommend it to everyone who wants to get great background!

By Alex J

Jan 12, 2018

Excellent intro to SQL. I've already recommended it to my Operations manager as a pre-requisite for read access to our SQL databases.

By Iryeilin M E I

Sep 16, 2022

Was a great course, I´m pretty happy with what I've learned and how I can use this in my current job position. So good explained <3

By K1 T

Sep 13, 2022

Awesome for begginers with a slight knowledge of computers and databases. SADIE ST LAWRENCE is my fav teacher. it was a great course

By Sean D

Jul 6, 2022

Very well presented. Knowledge checks mid video make sure you're paying attention. Easy to understand instructions. Highly reccomend.

By Furkan Y O

Jan 11, 2021

It is very useful to step on Data Science. It is well designed and clear. It would be much better if the examples are more exclusive.

By Dominguez, D G

Sep 2, 2019

Excelente curso!!! Aprendí muchísimo sobre SQL en este més de curso y quedé muy interesado en seguir capacitándose en "Data Science".

By José R G

Dec 4, 2018

Very well expalined, intended mainly for anyone which does not have any prior understanding for either SQL language or data analysis.

By Muaaz Z

Dec 13, 2021

Great course for anyone who is beginning to learn SQL and Data Analysis. Kudos to the instructor who simplified each and everything.

By Aakash K

Nov 8, 2021

The course was nicely presented and was taught at a good pace to keep up with. Special thanks to Ms. Sadie for her efforts and time.

By Dmitry S

Dec 28, 2020

The course was clear to understand, althougn I am a beginner in sql. Also I like a part where I can grade projects of my classmates.

By Chirag A

Aug 7, 2020

Hi their. I liked the course a lot and the faculty was very understandable. She teached everything with live examples . loved that!!

By Francesco L S

Nov 23, 2018

very nice introduction to SQL, in very few steps got me from my 0-knowledge to being able to understand DBs and run complex queries!

By Praveen S

Apr 2, 2022

Well taught course. Instructor was good with her explanations and the content was organized neatly from easy, medium to hard levels