Overview

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Build practical SQL skills that help you extract, combine, and interpret business data for analysis. In this course, you’ll develop hands-on experience used in roles such as data analyst, business analyst, reporting analyst, operations analyst, and junior BI analyst. You’ll practice writing SQL queries to answer business questions, retrieving data from source tables and data warehouses, calculating business metrics from technical specifications, and joining related tables to create analysis-ready datasets. This is a non-traditional, skill-based learning experience organized around real workplace tasks instead of a fixed lecture sequence. It’s designed to reflect responsibilities you may see in job descriptions, from pulling ad hoc data for stakeholder requests to querying fact and dimension tables and updating records in a database. You can personalize your path based on what you already know, focus on the skills you need most, and skip content when it’s not necessary. The course curates high-quality lessons from expert instructors, selecting the strongest content for each skill so you can build practical, career-relevant SQL experience. By the end, you’ll be able to write queries to extract data for specific analysis requests, answer well-defined business questions with ad hoc SQL, calculate business metrics, combine related tables with joins, work with fact and dimension tables in a data warehouse, and use basic data manipulation language commands to manage database records. This course is a strong fit if you’re new to SQL or have basic experience with spreadsheets, data, or business reporting.

Syllabus

Start Here: Get Oriented and Check Your Skills

Start here to learn how this skill-based course works and find your recommended starting point. You’ll take a short, ungraded diagnostic to check your current skills, then decide whether to go directly to the graded skill assessments or review targeted learning content first.

Job Task 1: Extract, Join, and Interpret Business Data

Use this module to build the skills for the job task Extract, Join, and Interpret Business Data. You’ll learn how to retrieve records with SQL, answer ad-hoc business questions, calculate metrics, combine related tables with joins, and work with data warehouse concepts for analysis. Review the lessons that match the skills you want to strengthen before completing the related graded assessment.

Job Task 2: Update Product Data and Manage Database Records

Use this module to build the skills for the job task Update Product Data and Manage Database Records. You’ll learn how to use SQL data manipulation commands to update records accurately and support data quality in a transactional database. Review the lessons that match the skills you want to strengthen before completing the related graded assessment.

Wrap Up: Review Your Skill Achievement and Choose Your Next Path

Review the skills you practiced and demonstrated in this course, then prepare to describe them in career-relevant ways. You’ll also explore recommended skill paths that can help you continue building related job-ready skills.