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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

EL

Jan 29, 2019

Perfect course! But recommend the last main exercise do more readable and understandable. It is difficult to read in a text file, single-color task and it is not always clear what needs to be done.

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

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By aweller3

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May 19, 2023

Overall a very good introduction to SQL. I learned a lot especially from the final project.

By Peter J

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Jan 17, 2021

Very good. There are typos/unclear verbage in the final assignment that need to be addressed

By Xavier H

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May 4, 2019

Great for beginners up to intermediate and even professionals that missed some of the basics

By Jeffrey B

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Jul 26, 2023

This course was great however, many of the questions in the discussion forum were outdated.

By Xuesong H

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Apr 30, 2022

Overall great course. My only feedback is to add more examples when introducing new syntax.

By Josiel C T

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Oct 30, 2021

The course is good. I think that the final assignment can be improved because is ambiguous.

By Guo Z

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Feb 9, 2020

hope can mark the assignment by tutors if there is no classmate to mark before the deadline

By Reinhold L

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Feb 3, 2019

I had expected to see more examples in the field of data science. All in all a good course.

By Rayan G

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Jul 19, 2023

Good course to begin with SQL, having more example of code would definitely be appreciated

By Jamie R

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Aug 4, 2022

more query examples would be helpful instead of very basic examples from the short slides.

By Simone A

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Dec 29, 2020

Good course, but the final assignment is not well balanced to the difficulty of the course

By Yingyin X

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Sep 10, 2018

Good for beginner! The content is comprehensive and detailed. I would recommend to others,

By Jorge L R Z

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Mar 2, 2018

The course shows some things very shallow, some more exercises o readings would help a lot

By Rozario D D

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Jun 1, 2025

The Preview Final Project can be a bit tricky and buggy, but good content for beginners!

By Prakhar D

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Sep 6, 2024

It could have been made more difficult with more good questions on Joins and subqueries.

By Bruno F

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May 5, 2023

The final peer-reviewed assignment could be better elaborated. Everything else is great.

By Mr H T

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Apr 20, 2023

aGood teachings and awesome my learning very improve thanks coursera and thanks emam for

By Tuomo P

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May 11, 2019

The final assignment could have been a bit more clear in terms of wording the questions.

By Roshni G

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Feb 16, 2019

Excellent course. But could have specified more on DML or adding data into table as well

By Tshepo M M

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Jun 29, 2021

good course, the on-video quiz makes more interesting and also helps with concentration

By Tom B

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Oct 9, 2020

Good course. I would have liked to install a program on my desktop and actually use it.

By Bobur K

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Sep 18, 2020

This course was one of the great courses so far, very clearly explained understandable.

By Vinayaka R K

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Aug 10, 2020

The material coverage of the course is very good and just enough to get things started!

By thato h

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May 31, 2018

Best introduction to SQL I have taken. The approach is quite good and straight forward.

By Violetta F

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Dec 30, 2025

Some assignments are quite ambiguous, so they could benefit from my precise language