Skill

SQL fundamentals

Query relational data with SELECT, WHERE, JOIN, GROUP BY. Think in sets.

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What you will be able to do

Filter and project rows
JOIN two tables on a key
Aggregate with GROUP BY and HAVING

Curated resources

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SQL — full course

freeCodeCamp / Mike Dane4h

Pause and run every query in the LearnPath SQL playground.

Score 90

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Official docs

Quick pathdocumentationintermediate

SQLite language documentation

SQLite1h 30m

Dialect used by the in-browser playground.

Score 92

Open

4h 5mProject-based

Project-orientedyoutube courseintermediate

Learn SQL Beginner to Advanced in Under 4 Hours

Alex The Analyst4h 5m

Takes SQL from basics to window functions and CTEs with a data-analyst framing — how to answer a business question, not just how to run a query. Published 2024, so the tooling screenshots are current.

Score 89

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3h 10mLearnPath pick

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SQL Course for Beginners [Full Course]

Programming with Mosh3h 10m

Three hours of SQL taught against a realistic store database, with joins, grouping and subqueries introduced in the order you meet them in practice. The clearest single-video SQL foundation in the set.

Score 86

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6h 26m

SQL for Data Analytics – Intermediate Course + Project

Luke Barousse6h 26m

A 2025 intermediate course that ends in a portfolio project — load a real dataset, answer questions with SQL, present the result. The best 'prove you can use SQL' artefact in the database category.

Score 86

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