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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 Deleted A

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Mar 31, 2021

Shows a lot of IBM cloud error

By Nitin C

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May 28, 2020

found it a tad bit challenging

By Albert A

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Apr 15, 2022

the lab is hard to access

By Giridhar K

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Apr 30, 2020

Not up to the expectation

By mert e

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Dec 19, 2019

exams are not challenging

By Sheldon D S

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Dec 7, 2019

Very confusing at times.

By Laxman J

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Nov 4, 2024

it will help in job

By REVANTH

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Sep 30, 2023

Labs can be better

By Samir S

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Feb 15, 2019

More SQL needed.

By Chileshe K

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Nov 19, 2024

very important

By Garrison W

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Feb 10, 2022

Very basic SQL

By Utkarsh D

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Apr 25, 2020

averge course

By Nukala V 2

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Oct 23, 2024

very helful

By Vittorio S

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Apr 5, 2022

Very Basic

By Arpan K

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Apr 25, 2020

Very basic

By José M

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Jun 13, 2023

Muy bueno

By Rohit H

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Apr 11, 2022

good

By Anamika S

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Mar 29, 2022

good

By Pagadala G s

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May 9, 2020

ok

By Thøger E R

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Aug 30, 2022

SQL is useful stuff, and the other courses in this track (data science professional certificate) are great, but this course has way, way too many errors in assignments, workbooks etc. The course material needs a major overhaul to make sure

1. Assignment problems are clearly and unambiguously defined

2. Example syntax actually works in the SQL dialect being used in the notebook

3. When saying stuff like "create table like in week 2 Lab 1, part II", make sure that part 2 of lab 1 in week 2 actually has anything to do with creating tables (it currently does not), etc.

4. When saying "replace the part in angled brackets below with...", make sure there actually is a part in angles brackets below

Etc. etc.;I have wasted a lot of frustrating time trying to figure out stuff that had nothing to do with SQL because of the sheer amount of errors and inaccuracies like this in this course.

By Lahiri B

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Oct 19, 2020

https://cf-courses-data.s3.us.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud/IBMDeveloperSkillsNetwork-DB0201EN-SkillsNetwork/labs/FinalModule_SKO/data/Census_Data_-_Selected_socioeconomic_indicators_in_Chicago__2008___2012-v2.csv

https://cf-courses-data.s3.us.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud/IBMDeveloperSkillsNetwork-DB0201EN-SkillsNetwork/labs/FinalModule_SKO/data/Chicago_Public_Schools_-_Progress_Report_Cards__2011-2012-v3.csv

https://cf-courses-data.s3.us.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud/IBMDeveloperSkillsNetwork-DB0201EN-SkillsNetwork/labs/FinalModule_SKO/data/Chicago_Crime_Data-v2.csv

Graded peer assignment links are not working. It seems no one actively maintains the course content. Never expected this from IBM

By Jason L

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Apr 28, 2019

The beginning started simple enough to follow. The learning curve jumps from 0 to 100 in a short time. Not an ideal intro course. The labs are much more complex than what is taught. Instructions how to restart and operate a Run a new SQL was not shown and I had to spend lots of time trying to figure it out on my own. The powerpoints and information are easy to follow but the ease of use through IBM's platform is not friendly. Definitely easier places to learn as I have taken other courses online for intro SQL. I wouldn't recommend purchasing this. I'd either use it in a Free Trial or Audit it. For that value, you can spend your money elsewhere.

By Aj _

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Aug 9, 2019

1. Lots of the slides have repetitive content, for Ex. different type of joins, Every slide have some repeating lines/audio. Could have taken some different use case or else could have combined it making it a single slide for each joins.

2. The "Table Loading Issue" its been a week now I am facing this issue, even have posted in the forum, the solution provided is also not working. Every time I try loading the table in db2 it fails, without giving any error/warning message. I am almost done except a few assignments and final peer graded assignment due to this I am not able to complete my course.

By nakul g

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Jun 4, 2020

I did not find the course structure, contents, way of teaching at all good.

I spent more time figuring out how to upload data on IBM DB2 storage than practising. I feel in this course coursera must look into ways to make it more learnable, I seriously will say, I was unable to learn anything from this course I had to spend alot of time on google and other learning websites to figure out how to code in SQL.

In many assignments I just had to skip them because connecting to IBM is very stressful and difficult thats why I was mostly able not to connect with it.

By Andy M

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Jan 15, 2023

Course just not particularly well designed. There are typos throughout, several of the instructions are outdated (DB2 interface has changed and course has not been updated to reflect the changes). Some of the answers to the problems do not work. Some questions are poorly worded and the solutions provided are not for exactly what was asked in the question. Course spends a large amount of time on relatively simple material and then quickly flies through more advanced material by giving one example but not actually explaining how the queries/functions work.