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!

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.

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