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Introduction To SQL

A series of interactive lessons and exercises designed to help you quickly learn SQL right in your browser. I found it very helpful.

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SQLBolt

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Introduction to SQL
Welcome to SQLBolt, a series of interactive lessons and exercises designed to
help you quickly learn SQL right in your browser.

What is SQL?

SQL, or Structured Query Language, is a language designed to allow both


technical and non-technical users query, manipulate, and transform data from
a relational database. And due to its simplicity, SQL databases provide safe
and scalable storage for millions of websites and mobile applications.
Did you know?
There are many popular SQL databases including SQLite, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle
and Microsoft SQL Server. All of them support the common SQL language standard,
which is what this site will be teaching, but each implementation can differ in the
additional features and storage types it supports.

Relational databases

Before learning the SQL syntax, it's important to have a model for what a
relational database actually is. A relational database represents a collection of
related (two-dimensional) tables. Each of the tables are similar to an Excel
spreadsheet, with a fixed number of named columns (the attributes or
properties of the table) and any number of rows of data.
For example, if the Department of Motor Vehicles had a database, you might
find a table containing all the known vehicles that people in the state are
driving. This table might need to store the model name, type, number of
wheels, and number of doors of each vehicle for example.
Table: Vehicles
Id Make/Model # Wheels # Doors Type
1 Ford Focus 4 4 Sedan
2 Tesla Roadster 4 2 Sports
3 Kawakasi Ninja 2 0 Motorcycle
4 McLaren Formula 1 4 0 Race
5 Tesla S 4 4 Sedan

In such a database, you might find additional related tables containing


information such as a list of all registered drivers in the state, the types of
driving licenses that can be granted, or even driving violations for each driver.
By learning SQL, the goal is to learn how to answer specific questions about
this data, like "What types of vehicles are on the road have less than four
wheels?", or "How many models of cars does Tesla produce?", to help us make
better decisions down the road.

About the lessons

Since most users will be learning SQL to interact with an existing database, the
lessons begin by introducing you to the various parts of an SQL query. The
later lessons will then show you how to alter a table (or schema) and create
new tables from scratch.
Each lesson will introduce a different concept and end with an interactive
exercise. Go at your pace and don't be afraid to spend time experimenting
with the exercises before continuing! If you happen to be familiar with SQL
already, you can skip ahead using the links in the top-right, but we would
recommend you work through the lessons anyways!
By the end, we hope you will be able to have a strong foundation for using
SQL in your own projects and beyond.

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