Course details

Update 10/06/2016: Added new exercises

Update 01/04/2016: Closed Captions/Sub Titles are added to the Lectures.

Learn to become a fee-earning SQL developer in just seven weeks.

This fast, easy and effective course will take you from zero sql writing skills to being able to make money as a SQL developer.

This one-stop-shot-style SQL course will teach you everything you need to know about SQL, from learning various database concepts to writing SQL to interact with the database.

Throughout this SQL course I will be using the below methodology to make you think and help in forming the SQL statement.

Business Need:

Manager asks you to give you a report containing total sales volume for January month by day and city

Questions in your mind to build your SQL query

  • Give?                                                                  SELECT 
  • What columns?                                                 DAY, CITY 
  • Summary?                                                          SUM(VOLUME) 
  • Preposition?                                                      FROM 
  • Which table contains sales orders data?      SALES 
  • Filter?                                                                WHERE SALES_DATE BETWEEN '01-JAN-2015' and '31-JAN-2015' 
  • Grouping?                                                         GROUP BY DAY, CITY


Combine the above answers to form the below SQL

SELECT day, city, SUM(volume)
FROM sales
WHERE sales_date BETWEEN '01-JAN-2015' AND '31-JAN-2015'
GROUP BY day, city;

In this course participants will learn

  • Relational databases Concepts
  • Retrieving Data from Database using SQL Commands (Select)
  • Filtering Data based on business requirements using SQL Command (Where)
  • Creating Tables and modifying its structure using SQL commands (Create, Alter)
  • Joining Data from various Tables using SQL Joins
  • Grouping Data and calculating summaries using SQL GROUP BY and SQL Aggregate functions
  • Combining data from 2 or more tables using SQL keywords (UNION, UNION ALL, INTERSECT, MINUS)
  • Enforcing Constraints on Tables using SQL commands (Create. Alter)
  • Creating views using SQL command (Create View)
  • Creating other database objects (SYNONYMS, SEQUENCES) using the SQL commands
  • Controlling the access to the users using SQL commands (GRANT, REVOKE)
  • Improving performance using SQL command (create Index )
  • Project Work at the summarize the SQL concepts we learnt.
  • and many more interesting things..

Softwares used

  • Oracle Database 11g
  • SQL Developer
Updated on 17 January, 2015
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