Learn SQL in the Age of AI

Learn SQL step by step with AI as your copilot. Build real-world projects, practice prompting, and develop a portfolio that showcases your data analyst skills.

Beginner

20 Lessons

Updated 1 week ago

Learn SQL step by step with AI as your copilot. Build real-world projects, practice prompting, and develop a portfolio that showcases your data analyst skills.

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AI-POWERED

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This course includes

51 AI Prompts

72 Playgrounds

This course includes

51 AI Prompts

72 Playgrounds

Course Overview

SQL remains a core tool for data analysis, supporting everything from dashboards to large-scale analytics. In AI-assisted workflows, it becomes easier to use as AI helps refine queries and streamline exploration. This approach introduces SQL to beginners while demonstrating how AI supports practical data analysis workflows. You’ll learn how to query a database to retrieve meaningful answers, select columns, filter rows, sort results, and apply logic to interpret raw data. You’ll explore grouping, aggregati...Show More

What You'll Learn

An understanding of SQL fundamentals and their application to data analysis

A working knowledge of selecting, filtering, grouping, and aggregating data in SQL

Hands-on experience solving real-world data scenarios with AI-assisted SQL workflows

The ability to design basic relational schemas and manipulate database tables

Familiarity with multi-table queries, including joins and subqueries, for extracting insights

Experience building SQL projects supported by AI, culminating in a portfolio-ready capstone

What You'll Learn

An understanding of SQL fundamentals and their application to data analysis

Course Content

Your First Queries and Tables

Learn querying tables, understanding structures, and writing clear SQL prompts.

Querying a Table

Exploring Table Structures

Writing Clear Prompts

Filtering and Sorting

Explore SQL filtering, sorting, and aliasing for clearer data insights.

Filtering Rows with WHERE ORDER BY and LIMIT AS Aliases for Columns and Tables

Aggregations and Business Metrics

Master SQL aggregate functions and analysis techniques for insightful data interpretation.

Seeing the Big Picture: SUM, AVG, and COUNT GROUP BY and HAVING Reading SQL Output for Insight

Connecting Data Across Tables

Practice SQL joins to effectively combine and analyze data across multiple tables.

INNER JOIN of Tables LEFT, RIGHT, and FULL JOINS Multi-Table and Self-Joins Planning Join Paths

Subqueries

Master complex SQL queries using subqueries, CTEs, and multi-step planning.

Subqueries in SELECT and WHERE WITH Clauses (CTEs) for Clarity Planning Multi-Step Queries

CRUD Operations in SQL

4 Lessons

Handle data modification, table design, and safe SQL practices for effective analysis.

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