Generative AI SQL Database Specialist with ChatGPT

ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your smartphone, if you use them right. ChatGPT can tutor your child in math, generate a meal plan and recipes, write software applications for your business, help you improve your personal cybersecurity, and that is just in the first hour that you use it. This course will teach you how to be an expert user of these generative AI tools. The course will show amazing examples of how you can tap into these generative AI tools' emergent intelligence and reasoning, how you can use them to be more productive day to day, and give you insight into how they work. Large language models respond to instructions and questions posed by users in natural language statements, known as “prompts”. Although large language models will disrupt many fields, most users lack the skills to write effective prompts. Expert users, who understand how to write good prompts, are orders of magnitude more productive and can unlock significantly more creative uses for these tools. This course introduces students to the patterns and approaches for writing effective prompts for large language models. Anyone can take the course and the only required knowledge is basic computer usage skills, such as using a browser and accessing ChatGPT. Students will start with basic prompts and build towards writing sophisticated prompts to solve problems in any domain. By the end of the course, students will have strong prompt engineering skills and be capable of using large language models for a wide range of tasks in their job, business, personal life, and education, such as writing, summarization, game play, planning, simulation, and programming.

Imagine turning your database into a conversation partner that not only answers your questions but visualizes insights, finds patterns you've missed, and helps fix your queries. This isn't science fiction—it's the power of Generative AI applied to SQL and data analysis. Traditional database interaction requires technical expertise, writing complex queries, and switching between multiple tools to analyze and visualize results. But what if you could simply have a conversation with your data? What if you could ask questions in plain language and receive immediate, actionable insights? This course teaches you how to revolutionize your relationship with databases through ChatGPT-assisted analysis. You'll learn powerful techniques to establish accurate database context, collaboratively explore meaningful questions, generate precise SQL queries, and transform raw results into compelling visualizations—all through natural conversation with AI. All of these techniques are simple for anyone to use with just ChatGPT and your database. We'll explore proven patterns like the CLUE framework for establishing database context, the experimental query generation approach for building complex queries, and the TRUST method for verifying your results. You'll discover how to design visualization-first queries, build reproducible analysis pipelines with the CAPTURE pattern, and efficiently troubleshoot SQL issues using the DEBUG framework. Whether you're a data analyst seeking to accelerate your workflow, a business professional who needs insights without coding expertise, or a database administrator looking to expand your toolkit, this course equips you with immediately applicable skills. You'll learn to extract more value from your existing data while dramatically reducing the time and technical barriers traditionally associated with database analysis. By the end of this course, you'll transform how you interact with databases—moving from rigid, technical queries to fluid, insightful conversations that reveal the full potential of your data. As Generative AI reshapes the landscape of data analysis, this course ensures you're not just keeping pace but leading the charge with powerful, practical techniques that deliver immediate results.