Interactive SQL Course

A comprehensive SQL course designed to change the way you think about SQL forever. Together we will walk the path to understand how this language works and gain all the necessary skills to use it effectively at work.

Module 0

Introduction

In this short module, we'll take a look at how this course's platform works and learn how to get the most out of it. And also get information about our community.

Introduction

Course structure

Community

Module 1

Fundamentals

This module is designed to give you a basic understanding of databases and fill in potential gaps. Also in this module, we will get acquainted with the terminology of relational DBMS.

Document-oriented databases

Structure of relational databases

Introduction to SQL

Module 2

Basis of selection I

In this module we will learn how to write our first SQL queries, deal with such important concepts as conditional selection, sorting and data grouping.

Basic SQL Query Syntax

Literals

Function usage

Duplicate elimination, DISTINCT

Conditional WHERE operator

Operators IS NULL, BETWEEN, IN

Operator LIKE

Operator REGEXP

Sorting, ORDER BY operator

Grouping, GROUP BY operator

Aggregate functions

Operator HAVING

Module 3

Basis of selection II

We continue to write increasingly complex select queries: we learn how to get data from several tables, write subqueries, and get acquainted with a common table expression.

Multi-table queries, JOIN operator

INNER JOIN

OUTER JOIN

Selection limit, operator LIMIT

Subqueries

Subqueries with one row with one column

Subqueries with multiple rows and one column

Multi-column subqueries

Correlated Subqueries

Common Table Expressions, WITH

Combining queries, operator UNION

Conditional logic, CASE statement

Conditional function IF

Module 4

Data manipulation

In the previous modules, we learned how to write select-only queries, it's time to fool around more seriously: we get acquainted with adding, updating, and deleting records.

Adding data, INSERT operator

Updating data, UPDATE operator

Deleteing data, DELETE operator

Module 5

Advanced SQL

Let's start learning more advanced SQL topics and delve into the ones we've already covered.

Working with data types

Numeric data type

Date and time

Type conversion functions

Window functions

Partitions in window functions