Viktoria

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Viktoria Jorayeva

Consultant, Business Analyst @Fractal

Course overview

In this course, you’ll learn concepts such as the different types of joins and how to combine joins with subqueries to answer business questions. You’ll also learn how to write queries using three or more tables, how to perform recursive joins and pattern matching, and how to control how the data will look with CASE statements.

As you progress, you’ll learn how to build and organize complex queries to make them more readable using the WITH clause, and how to use set operations such as UNION, UNION ALL, EXCEPT, and INTERSECT to combine tables. You’ll also learn relational database concepts such as normalizing a table, designing and creating a database, and more.

Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll practice and get feedback directly in the browser. At the end of the course, you will complete two guided projects:

  • The SQL data analysis workflow
  • Designing and creating a database

Key skills

  • Querying data across multiple tables
  • Answering business questions using SQL
  • Understanding table relations and how to create and modify databases

Course outline

Intermediate SQL in R [7 lessons]

Joining Data in SQL 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Employ the four common joins
  • Write intermediate queries using joins with subqueries
  • Answer business questions using joins

Intermediate Joins in SQL 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Write queries that join three or more tables
  • Employ recursive joins, pattern matching, and the case statement
  • Write advanced joins

Building and Organizing Complex Queries 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Format queries to make them readable
  • Employ the "with" clause and views to organize your queries
  • Combine tables using set operations

Querying SQLite from R 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Run SQL queries using RSQLite in R

Guided Project: Answering Business Questions using SQL 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Frame a business question in advanced SQL queries
  • Create visualizations of your query results using pandas plot methods
  • Write analyses to communicate the results of your work

Table Relations and Normalization 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Employ the SQLite shell with databases.
  • Create database tables
  • Update data in database tables

Guided Project: Designing and Creating a Database 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Design a normalized database schema
  • Create normalized database tables
  • Transform data into normalized tables

Projects in this course

Guided Project: Designing and Creating a Database

Learn how to design, create, and populate a normalized SQL database.

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