Learn SQL databases in a weekend

This is an intensive crash–course of SQL databases, the absolute essence. It contains everything you need to know to jump into real SQL database projects. And you can do it in a single weekend!

You will learn:

What SQL databases are and how they are structured

How to set up the necessary tools to get started

How to CREATE TABLEs and modify their structure later

How to export the data and table structure to a backup–file, and restore a database from a backup

How to INSERT data

How to write queries to SELECT the necessary data, including WHERE conditions, ORDERing, aggregation and GROUP BY, conditions * and functions.

What the mysterious NULL values are and why they behave so weirdly

How to DELETE data

How to UPDATE data

How to link together tables and select data from multiple tables using JOINs

The course contains a great deal of practical exercises:

Short quizzes to test your understanding along the way

Exercises in every section, including an extensive set of exercises using multi–table SELECTs with JOIN

A course project in Python and Java where you will read data from an SQL databases in your program

We will use the MySQL database engine – one of the most popular choices of SQL, a free and open–source solution.