A beginner’s guide to SQL: An introduction to the 5 most commonly used pieces of SQL code
Steve Fox Steve Fox
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 Published On Jun 20, 2015

This 10 minute “Introduction to SQL” tutorial teaches students the 5 most common SQL tasks that data analysts perform on a daily basis such as

-Selecting all rows and columns from a database table
-Returning a subset of columns from a table
-Sorting results from a query
-Filtering records, including using wildcards
-Joining database tables using Inner Joins
-Returning distinct/ unique records from a column

The tutorial and sample code is designed to enable students to follow along in real-time with the instructor. An explanation of how to access and use the sample code is provided here :    • Video  

A more comprehensive, 60 minute, version of this course is also available at Udemy : https://www.udemy.com/t-sql-for-data-...

These courses assumes no prior understanding or experience with SQL or writing code. The code provided with the course works with Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2008 R2, SQL 2012, and SQL 2014. It will also work with all editions of SQL Server and most open source databases such as MySQL.

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