SQL is an essential skill for data scientists, and Microsoft SQL Server is one of the world's most popular database systems. In this course, you'll start with simple SELECT statements, and refine these queries with ORDER BY and WHERE clauses. You'll learn how to group and aggregate your results, and also how to work with strings.  You'll also cover the most common way to join tables, how to create tables, and inserting and updating data. You'll mainly work with the Chinook digital media database, representing sales of various artists and tracks. The music theme continues with the classic rock and Eurovision datasets, while we also look at trends in power outages in the US. Overall, you'll become proficient in the most common data manipulation tasks in SQL Server and build a solid foundation for the upcoming T-SQL courses here on DataCamp!

Become proficient at using SQL Server to perform common data manipulation tasks.

Learn how to use SQL Server to do common data manipulation tasks, like insert data, joining tables,  group and aggregate results, and work with strings.

Introduction to SQL Server

You’ve already used SQL to query data from databases. But did you know that there's a lot more you can do with databases? You can model different phenomena in your data, as well as the relationships between them. This gives your data structure and consistency, which results in better data quality. In this course, you'll experience this firsthand by working with a real-life dataset that was used to investigate questionable university affiliations. Column by column, table by table, you'll get to unlock and admire the full potential of databases. You'll learn how to create tables and specify their relationships, as well as how to enforce data integrity. You'll also discover other unique features of database systems, such as constraints.

Learn how to create one of the most efficient ways of storing data - relational databases! 

Learn how to create tables and specify their relationships in SQL, as well as how to enforce data integrity and other unique features of database systems.

Introduction to Relational Databases in SQL

A good database design is crucial for a high-performance application. Just like you wouldn't start building a house without the benefit of a blueprint, you need to think about how your data will be stored beforehand. Taking the time to design a database saves time and frustration later on, and a well-designed database ensures ease of access and retrieval of information. While choosing a design, a lot of considerations have to be accounted for. In this course, you'll learn how to process, store, and organize data in an efficient way. You'll see how to structure data through normalization and present your data with views. Finally, you'll learn how to manage your database and all of this will be done on a variety of datasets from book sales, car rentals, to music reviews.

Learn to design databases using star and snoflake schemas, and OLTP and OLAP. You will gain essential skills for creating and managing databases in SQL.

Database Design

A majority of data is stored in databases and knowing the necessary tools needed to analyze and clean data directly in databases is indispensable. This course focuses on T-SQL, the version of SQL used in Microsoft SQL Server, needed for data analysis. You will learn several concepts in this course such as dealing with missing data, working with dates, and calculating summary statistics using advanced queries. After completing this course, you will have the skills needed to analyze data and provide insights quickly and easily.

In this course, you will use T-SQL, the flavor of SQL used in Microsoft's SQL Server for data analysis.

Learn concepts for working in  T-SQL, such as dealing with missing data, working with dates, and calculating summary statistics using advanced queries.

Intermediate SQL Server

SQL Server has a robust set of tools to prepare, aggregate, and query time series data. This course will show you how to build and work with dates, parse dates from strings (and deal with invalid strings), and format dates for reporting. From there, you will see how SQL Server's built-in aggregation operators and window functions can solve important business problems like calculating running totals, finding moving averages, and displaying month-over-month differences using realistic sample data sets. You will also see how taking a different perspective on your data can solve difficult problems.

Explore ways to work with date and time data in SQL Server for time series analysis

Time Series Analysis in SQL Server

In this course, you will learn how to make use of the most important functions for manipulating data provided by SQL Server.  You can use these functions for processing and transforming data to get the results you want.

Learn the most important functions for manipulating, processing, and transforming data in SQL Server.

Learn how to use the most important functions for manipulating data in SQL Server to manipulate, process, and transform data to get the results you want.

Functions for Manipulating Data in SQL Server

A mission critical assignment is depending on your SQL coding skills. You’ve been given some code to fix.  It is giving the results you need but it’s running too slow, and it’s poorly formatted making it hard to read.  The deadline is tomorrow.  You’ll need to reformat the code and try different methods to improve performance.  The pressure is on!!!  In this course we’ll be using SQL on real world datasets, from sports and geoscience, to look at good coding practices and different ways how we can can improve the performance of queries to achieve the same outcome.

In this course, students will learn to write queries that are both efficient and easy to read and understand.

Discover how you can reformat code and try different methods to improve the performance of queries in SQL. Then apply your skills to real-world datasets.

Improving Query Performance in SQL Server

Take your SQL Server programming to the next level. First, we demystify how to manipulate datetime data by performing temporal exploratory data analysis with the Washington DC BikeShare transactional dataset. Then, you’ll master how to create, update, and execute user-defined functions and stored procedures. You will learn the proper context for each modular programming tool and best practices. In the final chapter, you will apply all of your new skills to solve a real-world business case identifying the New York City yellow taxi utilization for each borough, and which pickup locations should be scheduled for each driver shift.

Master SQL Server programming by learning to create, update, and execute functions and stored procedures.

Writing Functions and Stored Procedures in SQL Server

It is critical to know how to handle errors and manage transactions when programming SQL scripts. Unhandled errors can be very harmful and can cause unexpected situations, such as inconsistent data in your database, or even worse, errors can lead you to make wrong business decisions.
In this course, you will learn how to handle errors and discover how to manage transactions in case of an error. Additionally, you will study what happens when two or more people interact at the same time with the same data. You will practice all these concepts using two datasets, one of them based on bank accounts and the other one on an electric bike store.

Learn to write scripts that will catch and handle errors and control for multiple operations happening at once.

Transactions and Error-Handling in SQL Server

Transactions and Error Handling in SQL Server

Auditing your SQL Server database and keeping data integrity can be a challenging task for DBAs and database developers. SQL Server triggers are special types of stored procedures designed to help you achieve consistency and integrity of your database. This course will teach you how to work with triggers and use them in real-life examples. Specifically, you will learn about the use cases and limitations of triggers and get practice designing and implementing them. You will also learn to optimize triggers to fit your specific needs.

Learn how to design and implement triggers in SQL Server using real-world examples.

Building and Optimizing Triggers in SQL Server

Learn the basics of database design and the different SQL data types. Then master the core concepts for the exam. In this track, you’ll learn how to write queries, functions, and stored procedures. You’ll also find out how to manage transactions, handle errors, and improve query performance. 

Gain the SQL Server skills you need to write, troubleshoot, and optimize your queries using SQL Server. 

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 Data Analyst

The role of a data scientist is to turn raw data into actionable insights. Much of the world's raw data—from electronic medical records to customer transaction histories—lives in organized collections of tables called relational databases. To be an effective data scientist, you must know how to wrangle and extract data from these databases using a language called SQL . This course teaches syntax in SQL shared by many types of databases, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle. This course teaches you everything you need to know to begin working with databases today!

Master the basics of querying tables in relational databases such as MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

Learn the basics of syntax in SQL, how to extract and wrangle data, and use querying tables in relational databases like MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

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