The Ultimate MySQL Bootcamp: Go from SQL Beginner to Expert

COMPLETELY REDONE! Master SQL, Work With Complex Databases, Build Reports, and More!

This course was completely redone and rebuilt from the ground up, with over 325 brand new videos recorded. The course is compatible with the latest MySQL versions and covers new topics including: Window Functions, Views, and SQL modes.

If you want to learn how to gain insights from data but are too intimidated by databases to know where to start, then this course is for you. This course is a gentle but comprehensive introduction to MySQL, one of the most highly in-demand skills in the business sector today.

Whether you work in sales or marketing, you run your own company, or you want to build your own apps, mastering MySQL is crucial to answering complex business problems and questions using insights from data. The Ultimate MySQL Bootcamp introduces you to a solid foundation in databases in a way that’s both informative and engaging. Yes, that’s right, it’s possible to make an engaging course on databases.

In this course, you will:

• Learn the ins and outs of SQL syntax

• Generate reports using sales and user data

• Analyze data using Aggregate Functions

• Run complex queries using MySQL logical operators and string functions

• Write all the common SQL joins

• Work with large datasets containing thousands of entries

• Design and implement complex database schemas

• Learn to navigate the treacherous world of storing dates and times

• Clone the database structure of a photo sharing social network

• Work with MySQL 8.x Window Functions: RANK, LEAD, LAG, NTILE, etc.

• Create MySQL database views and virtual tables

This course is also chock full of exercises, challenges, projects, and opportunities for you to practice what you’re learning. Apply what you’re learning to real-world challenges such as finding a website’s power users, calculating your top students, identifying bots on a site, or determining which hashtags generate the most traction on a site. Along the way, you’ll also get to meet my pet cat, Blue! (She’s really cute.)

Why Learn MySQL

Consistently ranked the most in-demand skill in recent employer surveys, SQL is a fantastic way to increase your income and boost your professional development. So many companies today use MySQL, including Twitter, Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox, GitHub, Kickstarter, Udemy, Slack, and many others. Unsure about the difference between SQL and MySQL? MySQL is the most popular open source SQL database out there, so it’s a great choice to begin your learning journey. We’ll talk a lot more about the difference between SQL and MySQL in the course, but 95% of what you learn about MySQL in this course will apply to other databases such as Postgres, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Why This Course Is Different

This isn’t going to be a course where you watch me code for 20 hours; it’s a course with ample opportunity for you to get your hands dirty writing code (even within the first 7 minutes of the course).

My teaching experience is rooted in the classroom. I’ve spent years teaching programming, web development, and databases to my in-person bootcamp students. This course combines the best of my offline courses with the convenience of learning online, in a setting that’s best for you.

Upon completing this course, you’ll be able to interact with and query any SQL database out there. You’ll also be able to generate reports with ease, answer company performance questions using data, and integrate MySQL into complete applications.

So let’s do this! Enroll today and start learning SQL!