The Ultimate MySQL Bootcamp: Go from SQL Beginner to Expert

Course details

If you want to learn how to gain insights from data but are too intimidated by databases to know where to start, then this course is for you. This course is a gentle but comprehensive introduction to MySQL, one of the most highly in-demand skills in the business sector today.

Whether you work in sales or marketing, you run your own company, or you want to build your own apps, mastering MySQL is crucial to answering complex business problems and questions using insights from data. The Ultimate MySQL Bootcamp introduces you to a solid foundation in databases in a way thats both informative and engaging. Yes, thats right, its possible to make an engaging course on databases.

In this course, you will:

• Learn the ins and outs of SQL syntax

• Generate reports using sales and user data

• Analyze data using Aggregate Functions

• Run complex queries using MySQL logical operators and string functions

• Write all the common SQL joins

• Work with large datasets containing thousands of entries

• Build a web app using MySQLand NodeJS

• Design and implement complex database schemas

• Learn to navigate the treacherous world of storing dates and times

• Clone the database structure of a photo sharing social network

• Write Javascript code to generate fake data sets

• And more!

This course is also chock full of exercises, challenges, projects, and opportunities for you to practice what youre learning. Apply what youre learning to real-world challenges such as finding a websites power users, calculating your top students, identifying bots on a site, or determining which hashtags generate the most traction on a site. Along the way, youll also get to meet my pet cat, Blue! (Shes really cute.)

Why Learn MySQL

Consistently ranked the most in-demand skill in recent employer surveys, SQL is a fantastic way to increase your income and boost your professional development. So many companies today use MySQL, including Twitter, Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox, Github, Kickstarter, Udemy, Slack, and many others. Unsure about the difference between SQL and MySQL? MySQL is the most popular open source SQL database out there, so its a great choice to begin your learning journey. Well talk a lot more about the difference between SQL and MySQL in the course, but 95% of what you learn about MySQL in this course will apply to other databases such as Postgres, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Why This Course Is Different

This isnt going to be a course where you watch me code for 20 hours; its a course with ample opportunity for you to get your hands dirty writing code (even within the first 7 minutes of the course).

My teaching experience is rooted in the classroom. Ive spent years teaching programming, web development, and databases to my in-person bootcamp students. This course combines the best of my offline courses with the convenience of learning online, in a setting thats best for you.

Upon completing this course, youll be able to interact with and query any SQL database out there. Youll also be able to generate reports with ease, answer company performance questions using data, and integrate MySQL into complete applications.

So lets do this! Enroll today and start learning SQL!