Introduction to SQL and MySQL
Learn the basics of the most popular programming language designed for managing data

- Understand the basic concepts of databases
- Get a good grasp of SQL queries
- We will perform the queries with the help of an online platform, so no previous software installations are required
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:
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setting up the environment
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installing MySQL
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relational databases theory
Section 2:
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SQL and MySQL basics
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creating databases and database tables
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updating tables
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dropping tables
Section 3:
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basic SQL and MySQL commands
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select, where and wildcards
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ORDER BY and GROUP BY commands
Section 4:
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joining multiple database tables
Section 5:
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advanced SQL and MySQL
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subqueries
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transactions (ACID principles)
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views
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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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- This course is mean for newbies who are not familiar with SQL syntax or just want to refresh the knowledge