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Cleaning Data in SQL Server Databases

Intermediate

Updated 02/2025

Develop the skills you need to clean raw data and transform it into accurate insights.

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Course Description

Did you know that data scientists and data analysts spend a large amount of time cleaning data before they can analyze it? This is because real-world data is messy. To help you navigate messy data this course teaches you how to clean data stored in an SQL Server database. You’ll learn how to solve common problems such as how to clean messy strings, deal with empty values, compare the similarity between strings, and much more. You’ll get hands-on with all these tasks using a wide range of interesting and messy datasets, including monthly airline flights by airport, TV series and paper shop sales. Are you ready to get your hands messy?

Prerequisites

Intermediate SQL Server

1

Starting with Cleaning Data

Introduction to Cleaning Data

Unifying flight formats I

Unifying flight formats II

Cleaning messy strings

Trimming strings I

Trimming strings II

Unifying strings

Comparing the similarity between strings

SOUNDEX() and DIFFERENCE()

Comparing names with SOUNDEX()

Comparing names with DIFFERENCE()

2

Dealing with missing data, duplicate data, and different date formats

Dealing with missing data

Removing missing values

Removing blank spaces

Filling missing values using ISNULL()

Filling missing values using COALESCE()

Avoiding duplicate data

Diagnosing duplicates

Treating duplicates

Dealing with different date formats

Using CONVERT()

Using FORMAT()

CONVERT() vs FORMAT()

3

Dealing with out of range values, different data types, and pattern matching

Out of range values and inaccurate data

Out of range values or inaccurate data?

Detecting out of range values

Excluding out of range values

Detecting and excluding inaccurate data

Converting data with different types

Using CAST() and CONVERT()

The series with most episodes

Pattern matching

Characters to specify a patterns

Matching urls

Checking phone numbers

4

Combining, splitting, and transforming data

Combining data of some columns into one column

Combining cities and states using +

Concatenating cities and states

Working with DATEFROMPARTS()

Splitting data of one column into more columns

Using SUBSTRING() and CHARINDEX()

Using RIGHT() , LEFT() and REVERSE()

SUBSTRING() or CHARINDEX()?

Transforming rows into columns and vice versa

PIVOT or UNPIVOT?

Turning rows into columns

Turning columns into rows

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