BAN 300 Project

Introduction

With the hopes of pursuing a career in business analytics, I chose the pre-approved SQL option of datacamp courses to take. I originally was not familiar with relational databases and taking the courses Introduction to SQL for Data Science and Joining Data in PostgreSQL was a good start in learning the SQL server.

Intro to SQL

• Overall I thought this course was fairly easy as it was an introduction on how to select columns, filter rows, and sort or group results. The most challenging part of this course was probably the aggregate functions sections as some of the arthimetic in SQL is slightly different than conventional.

Joining Data in SQL

• I thought this course was much more demanding than the intro course, especially after the introduction to join chapter. This course really made you work but was certaintly worth it in the end as I feel I have a much better grasp of the SQL server. The subquery chapter was the most demanding, but the most rewarding. After many error messages later, one walks away from the course with a real sense of SQL. The final challenges at the end of the course were challenging but fun to work with as they really made you apply everything we learned in the first three chapters.