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.
By Samson A
•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Instructions and Labs were outdated, and the course material didn't accurately reflect the current tools.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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•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
•Aug 9, 2021
It has many technical issues with IBM Cloud. I couldn't focus on SQL skills from solving IBM connection problems.