Sunischal

“I tried to use Codecademy and DataCamp but felt that their learning modules were not interactive enough to keep me engaged.”

Sunishchal Dev

Lead Data Scientist @Booster

Course overview

In this course, you’ll learn how to identify and work with the various data types you’ll encounter in any data science role. Next, you’ll explore new concepts like functions, operators, expressions, and control flow. Finally, you’ll learn how to use them to optimize your work in a database.

Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll practice and get feedback directly in the browser.

Key skills

  • Defining binary operations and functions
  • Defining data types
  • Filtering results based on logical constraints
  • Ordering results

Course outline

Filtering and Sorting Data in SQL [7 lessons]

Datatypes and Column Operations 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Identify different data types
  • Employ documentation
  • Execute operations between columns
  • Employ text operations
  • Define aliases

Functions 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Define functions
  • Employ nested functions
  • Resolve missing values

Filtering I — Logical Operators 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Define expressions
  • Define conditions
  • Filter based on conditions with `WHERE`
  • Employ logical operators `NOT`, `AND`, and `OR`

Filtering II — Complex Expressions 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Define comparison operators
  • Identify the order of execution
  • Employ the `BETWEEN` operator

Filtering III — Special Comparison Operators 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Employ `LIKE` operator
  • Filter based on patterns
  • Avoid multiple uses of `OR` with `IN`
  • Define `NULL`
  • Check if an expression is `NULL`

Control Flow 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Program if/then rules
  • Employ the `CASE` expression
  • Identify pitfalls of the `CASE` expression

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