18 Feb 2026 Scott Davis The SQL Metrics Interviewers Really Care About (From Real Interviews) After a few SQL interviews, it’s easy to assume every company tests something different. After 11 of them, that assumption stopped holding up. Despite differences in companies and formats, the same metric questions kept coming back. This article summarizes what I saw most often and what those patterns say about how SQL interviews really work. Between November 2023 and April 2025, I took part in 11 data analyst interviews that included SQL technical screens. Read more 21 Jan 2026 Scott Davis 7 SQL Metric Patterns from Real-Life Interviews After going through multiple SQL interviews for data analyst roles, I noticed the same metric questions appearing repeatedly. This article breaks them down into seven patterns and shows how to recognize them quickly in interviews. Throughout the period between November 2023 and April 2025, I interviewed for multiple data analyst roles and started noticing a clear pattern in SQL interview questions. While the datasets and business contexts changed, the types of metrics interviewers asked about were often the same. Read more 10 Jul 2025 Scott Davis Sales Growth Analysis with the Data Analyst Cheatsheet: Part 2 Welcome to Part 2 of our sales data analysis journey. Using the SQL for Data Analysis Cheat Sheet, we’ll dive deeper into key metrics and apply SQL queries to uncover insights about consumers and products. Let’s sharpen those SQL skills! Building on my previous article, Sales Growth Dataset Exploration - Using the Data Analyst Cheat Sheet on Real Sales Data, this piece explores additional sales metrics using the same dataset. Read more 15 Apr 2025 Scott Davis Sales Growth Dataset Exploration – Using the Data Analyst Cheat Sheet on Real Sales Data Have you ever used the Data Analyst Cheat Sheet to analyze a business dataset? In this article, you can see the commands from the cheat sheet in action. I’ll explore a real-world sales dataset to answer 10 key business questions using SQL. Following the guidance from the SQL for Data Analysis Cheat Sheet, I’ll demonstrate how SQL queries can help analyze trends, measure performance, and extract meaningful insights from sales data. Read more