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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Databases and SQL for Data Science with Python by IBM

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About the Course

Working knowledge of SQL (or Structured Query Language) is a must for data professionals like Data Scientists, Data Analysts and Data Engineers. Much of the world's data resides in databases. SQL is a powerful language used for communicating with and extracting data from databases. In this course you will learn SQL inside out- from the very basics of Select statements to advanced concepts like JOINs. You will: -write foundational SQL statements like: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE -filter result sets, use WHERE, COUNT, DISTINCT, and LIMIT clauses -differentiate between DML & DDL -CREATE, ALTER, DROP and load tables -use string patterns and ranges; ORDER and GROUP result sets, and built-in database functions -build sub-queries and query data from multiple tables -access databases as a data scientist using Jupyter notebooks with SQL and Python -work with advanced concepts like Stored Procedures, Views, ACID Transactions, Inner & Outer JOINs through hands-on labs and projects You will practice building SQL queries, work with real databases on the Cloud, and use real data science tools. In the final project you’ll analyze multiple real-world datasets to demonstrate your skills....

Top reviews

BS

May 20, 2020

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!

SR

Aug 25, 2022

I am thankful to coursera for providing database and sql for data science course in such a way that anyone can

understand the basic fundamental of sql and database. I learn a lot from this course.

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By Samson A

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Aug 26, 2021

Instructions and Labs were outdated, and the course material didn't accurately reflect the current tools. Professor assistance was also poor, having to wait numerous days just for a simple response. Dealt with the most technical errors during this class. Also, ran into issues regarding loading the DB2 instance.

By Christopher R D

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Jul 1, 2021

Very hard to complete. Using the IBM Db2 service has horrendous. Because of the constant errors in using this service, it was a very jagged learning experience. I spent more time trying to find help from the staff on how to stop receiving open console errors than actually learning.

By Oksana K

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May 11, 2021

Strange tasks with errors, long waiting time for review, very bad support in the forum.

When you do week 6 will not change anything, the acquired knowledge will not be marked anywhere. Support says there would be a yellow banner "with honors", but I still had it after week 5.

By Vitali B

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Feb 12, 2023

I like the course but instruments for it (such as IBM DB2) are unavailable. Instructions with troubleshooting steps provided on forum sections are not working. It's clearly a mass issue affecting a lot of students. And coursera is not providing a real solution for us.

By Markus L

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May 21, 2020

the instructions weren't very clear and the assignments weren't challenging but they were really tedious. I stopped part way through the peer graded assignment simply because the questions annoyed me more than challenged me. IBM can do much better than this.

By e m

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Nov 9, 2023

Some terrible explanations. Several videos of were 6+ minutes of someone just reading a list of PROPER NOUNS and Definitions with zero context or explanation. The last 5% of content and peer-graded assignments is far removed from the rest of the course.

By Kirill K

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Jul 12, 2021

Would have rated it much better IF the professors / instructors did more to update the labs and coursework, spent way too much time figured out errors and reading forums, when this all could have been avoided if the instructors were proactive

By Olga P F

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Feb 10, 2023

The course is very outdated. It shows you ways to make JOINS that have not been used in the industry for more than 40 years and only in the last chapter do they show you the current Joins.

It is also not possible to connect Jupyter with BD2.

By Tyler D

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Dec 20, 2021

Pretty terrible quality labs, barely explaining the material on connections or using SQL in python. No one can progress in the course because of some kind of error. It's been weeks according to the backlogs on the discussion forums.

By Meena K

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Feb 23, 2023

Course content is good but giving 2 stars as sometime the jupyter notebook sql had issue connecting to the ibm Db2 database instance, Skills network lab doesnt work sometime and I had to do trial and error to submit the assignment

By NIKOLAS M M

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Nov 29, 2024

Quite good because of the information. However, if you try to use the same code on Microsoft SQL Sever is useless. Besides, most of the code is disorganized for example use ON statement in the same line of FROM TABLE_NAME

By Holt M

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Jul 17, 2020

The sql is easy, but the course makes it complicated for no reason. Instructions are incomplete on assignments, and issues are known to teaching staff. Ends up wasting 3 hours of time trying to solve known course issues.

By rahel p

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Jan 12, 2022

I found the course very dry. Parallel I was doinga python course on Udemy, the 100 day bootcamp, and the contrast with the energy you get from Angela in that course compared to this Coursera course was very stark.....

By Francesco Z

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Nov 20, 2024

The course itself it's very well made, but the app used to exercise is really bad. Sometimes it barely works and it makes it very difficult to follow the requests of the exercises.

By Lucie

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Jan 9, 2022

Excessive time spent on getting stuff to work. Very little added value beyond simple definitions. Peer reviewed assignments are a disaster - people can give points as they wish....

By Riley S

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Aug 20, 2020

Need to update instructions and screenshots for the ibm cloud site. Instructors dont respond to many questions in the forum and when they do their answers are often breif and vague

By Otis W

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Jun 13, 2022

the base course is just fine, but the honors course doesn't teah you what you need to know to comfortably complete the final assignment, also it is required for some tracks.

By Adam J L J H

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May 24, 2020

There were a lot of troubleshooting errors that I realise, were not only unique to me. These errors were not addressed properly and I ended googling some of these Issues

By Luca L

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Jun 23, 2020

The course has big technical issues that slow down the completion. I am quite disappointed by the application utilized in the course. The course lessons are good.

By Jay L

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Dec 29, 2021

The course overall is good with the content. However, there are some technical difficulties to run the final project and have very little support.

By Anandhu H

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Jul 16, 2021

Course content is great but working on IBM DB2 is very confusing. Faced a lot of technical issues where it took a lot of time to deal with.

By Nahuel F

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Jan 10, 2023

El contenido es bueno, pero no funcionan todas las practicas y en IBM cloud no me acepto el código para la práctica gratuita en DB2.

By Robert H

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Sep 17, 2021

The quality of the course material, workshops, and support for this class was abysmal compared to the other classes in this series

By Elizaveta N

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Apr 14, 2022

IBM Cloud is unavailable very often. I had a lot of problems starting the labs just because the tools were not available.

By Nurgul A

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Aug 9, 2021

It has many technical issues with IBM Cloud. I couldn't focus on SQL skills from solving IBM connection problems.