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Applying SQL to Real-World Problems

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142 reviews
Updated 03/2025
Find tables, store and manage new tables and views, and write maintainable SQL code to answer business questions.
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Course Description

Now that you’ve learned the basic tools of SQL you are ready to synthesize them into practical, real-world skills. In this course, you will work with a database of a fictional movie rental company. The size and complexity of this database will allow you to experience the challenges of working with databases firsthand. Throughout this course, you will use SQL to answer business-driven questions. You will learn new skills that will empower you to find the tables you need. You will then learn how to store and manage this data in tables and views that you create. Best of all you will also learn how to write code that not only clearly conveys your intent but is also legible.

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Data Manipulation in SQL
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Use Real-World SQL

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Find Your Data

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Manage Your Data

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Best Practices for Writing SQL

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  • Peter
    about 17 hours

  • Siddhartha
    2 days

  • Yulia
    2 days

  • Theo Stevenson
    2 days

    This is the best, if not one of the best, course I have taken in DataCamp. I really liked how straightforward the videos and the exercises are. I appreciate how the length of the videos are not too long. Moreover, I really liked the visual aid in the lessons, especially the one in aggregated function video. Chapter 4 of this course is one of the most crucial chapter/lessons in whole DataCamp. The chapter consisted of very helpful best practices in the industry and in the real-world. This course did a great job in showing how SQL is used to tackle real-world problem. Even if the title seems intimidating, the instructor and the authors of the course really made the course smooth and well-developed in terms of instruction and structure. I hope this course would be featured more.

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