Introduction to SQL and MySQL

Learn the basics of the most popular programming language designed for managing data

What you'll learn:

Understand the basic concepts of databases
Get a good grasp of SQL queries

Requirements:

We will perform the queries with the help of an online platform, so no previous software installations are required

Description:

Learn the basic concepts and functions that you will need to make queries with the most popular data manipulating programming language, SQL. This course is about SQL commands in the main. You will learn the basics of queries. This is a fundamental part of databases so it is definitly worth learning.

Section 1:

setting up the environment
installing MySQL
relational databases theory

Section 2:

SQL and MySQL basics
creating databases and database tables
updating tables
dropping tables

Section 3:

basic SQL and MySQL commands
select, where and wildcards
ORDER BY and GROUP BY commands

Section 4:

joining multiple database tables

Section 5:

advanced SQL and MySQL
subqueries
transactions (ACID principles)
views
indexes and constraints

Learning the fundamentals of SQL is a good choice and puts a powerful tool at your fingertips. SQL is easy to learn as well as it has excellent documentations.

The most important fact about SQL that it is used in almost every speciality from software engineering to financial analysis, so understanding the concepts and basic language features can prove to be very marketable.

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