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SQL Server Fundamentals

Updated 03/2025
Gain the starting SQL Server skills you need to summarize data, join tables, and analyze your data using SQL Server functions.
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SQL Server Fundamentals

Master SQL Server for Efficient Data Analysis

Unlock the power of SQL Server to manipulate, analyze, and extract insights from vast amounts of data. In this Track, you'll learn how to use SQL Server to work with data at a scale and speed that Excel can't match, enabling you to efficiently analyze large datasets.

Gain Essential SQL Server Skills

Through hands-on exercises, you'll master the fundamental skills every data professional needs, including:
  • Querying and filtering data from single and multiple tables
  • Summarizing data using aggregate functions like SUM, AVG, and COUNT
  • Joining tables to combine related data and gain deeper insights
  • Using subqueries and common table expressions (CTEs) for complex analyses
  • Manipulating dates, times, and strings with built-in SQL Server functions

Analyze Real-World Data Sets

You'll work with realistic data from various domains, such as sales, marketing, and finance, to identify trends in customer behavior, measure key performance indicators (KPIs), and detect anomalies that require further investigation. This section also covers generating reports for different stakeholders and performing time series analysis to forecast future trends.

Advance Your Career with In-Demand SQL Server Skills

SQL Server is widely used across industries, making it a valuable skill for various roles, including:
  • Business Analysts who need to extract and interpret data
  • Data Analysts responsible for deriving actionable insights
  • Developers building data-driven applications
  • Data Scientists performing exploratory data analysis
  • Database Administrators managing SQL Server instances
By completing this Track, you'll be equipped to tackle a wide range of data challenges and advance your career in the growing field of data analytics.

Why SQL Server?

SQL Server is a powerful relational database management system that offers scalability for handling massive datasets, performance optimizations for fast query execution, and security features to protect sensitive data. It integrates seamlessly with the Microsoft ecosystem, including Excel and Power BI, and supports advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads, making it an essential tool for modern data professionals.Whether you're new to SQL or an experienced data professional looking to upgrade your skills, this Track will help you leverage the capabilities of SQL Server for efficient data analysis and informed decision-making.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this track

  • Course

    1

    Introduction to SQL Server

    Learn to use SQL Server to perform common data manipulation tasks and master common data manipulation tasks using this database system.

  • Course

    2

    Intermediate SQL Server

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

  • Course

    3

    Joining Data in SQL

    Level up your SQL knowledge and learn to join tables together, apply relational set theory, and work with subqueries.

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