Learn SQL in 1 Hour - SQL Basics for Beginners
This YouTube tutorial, by Joey Blue, is a true crash course in SQL. In just one hour, it covers all of the fundamental lessons for working with SQL, and it does so in a presentation geared for beginners. Its designed to be the absolute first place you need to look to start learning SQL.
Created by: Joey Blue
Produced in 2017
What you will learn
- Creating databases
- Creating tables
- Managing data
- Select statements
- Where clauses
- Editing statements and comments
- Products tables
- Orders tables
Course Description
SQL Awards Best Crash Course
Pros
Cons
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- Course is one of the shortest on the topic without sacrificing thoroughness or effective communication.
- Every script in the course is available for download for further study and tinkering.
- One of the most informationally organized YouTube tutorials you can find.
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- Additional support is minimal. Questions on the YouTube page might be answered eventually, but the video is old enough that the community has died down.
- While the course is impressive for being only an hour long, the limited time forces ideas and concepts to be cut from the tutorial. Course is best used as a supplemental tutorial rather than a primary learning resource.
- Course does not connect to a more advanced dive into SQL, leaving students stranded with limited information on the topic.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
12 Reviews
Joey Blue
Joey has been working with Business Intelligence, Relational Databases, Analytics Tools, and Reporting Tools for over 18 years. He founded and works as a consultant with Embark Blue, helping small and large companies get better and more timely information for decision making.
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Reviews
By ShaolinMonkster on 03/21/2020
The best tutorial I've found. Time to expand my understanding after this. Would like some exercises to work on what I learnt on this video.
By Stephen Truong on 01/24/2020
Thank you so much for creating this video. Great logic and pace especially for beginners trying to understand this world.
By aravind appaji on 12/26/2019
I haven't written any SQL query since my degree and this helped me in refreshing stuff. I would recommendd this video to beginners
By Game Ovais on 11/06/2019
Thank you the excellent tutorial which goes through a basic but very understandable scenario. Brilliant stuff.
By Rahee11 on 11/03/2019
This is the best introduction on SQL I found so far. It starts simple and gradually builds on the simple start. Really helpful for beginners like me.
By OphidianAngel on 09/21/2019
Thanks alot for the clear instruction. I've been struggling with SQL for some while but somehow while watching your video(s) I noticed I'm becoming more and more handy with SQL and it's actions.
By sanjeev singh on 06/05/2019
Thank you for this great tutorial. It has very good pace. I looked at the end first and then I thought OMG, its very complicated and how I am going to understand this in one hour. But, you made is so simple and brick by brick from beginning.
By Pamela Malthouse on 05/06/2019
Brilliant I have learned more in under 1 hour than I did participating on a course for 3. Excellent so glad I found the video
By Sourabh Pawar on 02/23/2019
Really helped me out. It has been really long time i haven't written any SQL query this helped me in refreshing stuff.
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Overall Score : 92 / 100







