Five Essential Features of a Good SQL Course: What to Look for When Choosing a Course for You by Agnieszka Kozubek-Krycuń 6 Oct 2020 There are many different platforms offering SQL courses. If you’re a beginner, it may be difficult to choose the right one for you. Find out what we think are the essential features of a good SQL course. Remember, if you make a poor choice at the beginning, you may get discouraged or get into bad habits that will impact your work down the line. What Is SQL? SQL, or Structured Query Language, is a programming language you use to talk to databases. Read more Behind the Scenes at LearnSQL.com: How Our SQL Courses Are Created by Agnieszka Kozubek-Krycuń 10 Sep 2020 Take a peek behind the scenes and learn our secret for creating great SQL courses! Have you ever wondered how LearnSQL.com courses are created? Are we looking at a lot of hard work or just a bit of magic? Or maybe both? Here’s a hint: we rely on proven methods to create user-friendly online courses. But it’s not easy! Read on to see the 8 steps we take when creating a new SQL course. Read more What Is a SQL Dialect, and Which one Should You Learn? by Agnieszka Kozubek-Krycuń 7 Jul 2020 SQL, standard SQL, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, … You’d like to learn SQL, but you feel overwhelmed with keywords and you don’t know where to start. Let’s explain what each of those terms mean. SQL Is the Language for Talking to Databases A database is a computer program that can store and process large amounts of data. There are many different vendors of databases. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server are all database products by different vendors. Read more Why Take the “SQL Basics” Course at LearnSQL.com by Agnieszka Kozubek-Krycuń 17 Apr 2020 LearnSQL.com’s interactive “SQL Basics” course teaches the foundations of SQL. Discover why we built this online course, our philosophy behind it, and what it contains! What Is SQL, and Why Should You Learn It? SQL is a language used to talk to databases, computer programs that hold data and can process it efficiently. SQL can select data from a database and perform various computations on the data, be they simple or complex. Read more How to Get the First Day of the Week in SQL Server by Agnieszka Kozubek-Krycuń 2 Apr 2020 This is additional content for the LearnSQL.com course Customer Behavior Analysis in SQL Server. In the previous article, we talked about how you can use the SQL Server DATEPART() function with week or iso_week to group events by week. The query might look like this: SELECT DATEPART(week, RegistrationDate) AS Week, COUNT(CustomerID) AS Registrations FROM Customers WHERE '20180101' The result looks something like this: WeekRegistrations 1 58 2 123 . Read more How to Group Data by Week in SQL Server by Agnieszka Kozubek-Krycuń 2 Apr 2020 This is additional content for the LearnSQL.com course Customer Behavior Analysis in SQL Server. In this course, we showed you how you can analyze the customer lifecycle (customer acquisition, conversion, activity, retention, and churn) with SQL. We discussed customer registration cohorts, or groups of customers who registered during the same period (e.g. same week, same month). Analyzing customer registration cohorts lets you see registration trends and relate registration cohorts with marketing campaigns. Read more Why Window Functions Are Not Allowed in WHERE Clauses by Agnieszka Kozubek-Krycuń 27 Mar 2020 Window functions are extremely powerful, but there are a lot of nuances and little details you need to learn about using window functions in order to use them correctly and efficiently. A fairly common question SQL users have is why window functions are not allowed in WHERE. TL;DR: You can use window functions in SELECT and ORDER BY. You cannot use window functions in WHERE, GROUP BY, or HAVING. Read more GROUP BY Clause: How Well Do You Know It? by Agnieszka Kozubek-Krycuń 3 Dec 2016 The database can do different kinds of computations: it can add and subtract, multiply and divide, it can do computations on dates, it can count rows and sum row values, and so on. It can also do quite sophisticated statistics. The GROUP BY clause is the most basic way to compute statistics in SQL. It can be quite tough for beginners but it is really powerful. Let's look at the details of the GROUP BY clause, starting with the basics. Read more