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Beginner friendlyThis SQL course teaches you the language of data by having you write it. You'll design tables with keys that refuse bad data, load them, correct mistakes without touching the wrong rows, then filter, total and join your way to answers, most of it in practice exercises you type yourself. By the end, a colleague's question turns into a query you can write, run and explain.
Course overview
This course takes you from what a database actually is to building one of your own and querying it. Seven modules and about 27 hours of video: the first two teach the concepts and the core statements, and the last five are practice, where each exercise hands you a brief to turn into SQL before you see it solved, from a small ticketing business to a superstore with stores, staff, suppliers and orders.
By the end you can design related tables the database keeps consistent, load and correct data safely, and answer real questions with WHERE, GROUP BY and joins. It suits analysts tired of waiting for someone else to pull their data, Excel users whose spreadsheets have outgrown themselves, and anyone on the way to Power BI who wants to understand the data underneath.
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Every module and what it covers, the price, how you're assessed and where the course can take you.
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Curriculum
7 modules and 79 lessons, with around 27 hours of video. Work through them in order, at your own pace.
Key benefits
Everything you need to learn the skill, prove it and put it to work.
All 3 for £189 instead of £297
Getting started
There is no application, no waiting for a start date and no sales call in the way.
Pay once. Instant access, yours for life.
Career outcomes
The numbers a business runs on live in its databases, and SQL is how analysts reach them without waiting on anyone. Show an employer a schema you designed and queries you can explain line by line, and the certificate backs it up.
Source: National Careers Service (gov.uk), September 2026.
An example of the certificate for the Certificate in SQL.
If your questions fit happily inside one spreadsheet, Excel for Data Analysis may be all you need for now. And if you already write joins and GROUP BY with confidence, go straight to Advanced SQL.
A course advisor will talk it through with you free, and will say so if a different course fits your goal better.
Good to know
Seven modules, 79 lessons and about 27 hours of video. Every lesson carries a written summary, notes and a key-takeaways panel, and 40 of them carry an interactive step. There are seven checkpoints of eight questions and a final assessment of twenty questions at 80 per cent, which is what issues the certificate. Modules 3 to 7 are practice exercises, so you spend much of the course writing SQL yourself.
The core of SQL, which is the same everywhere. The demonstrations are in Microsoft SQL Server, so a few things are Microsoft-specific: TOP is the clearest example, where MySQL and PostgreSQL use LIMIT instead. The notes say so wherever it comes up.
The inner join, taught properly and written the modern way with JOIN and ON across three tables. Outer joins, subqueries, indexes and transactions are where Advanced SQL picks up, and the closing lessons here point you to them.
No. SQL Server's free edition and SQL Server Management Studio cost nothing, and the course shows you where to download them. Management Studio runs on Windows only, so on a Mac you'd follow along in a free database such as PostgreSQL, where a few commands differ.
SQL when the data lives in a database or has outgrown a sheet, Excel when it fits in one. The two work well together, which is why the Data Analyst Bundle pairs this course with Excel for Data Analysis and Power BI.
No, you make it. Each exercise has you build the tables and invent the rows yourself, from a seven-table bakery to a superstore chain, and typing the data in is part of how the syntax sticks.
Yes. It starts from what a database is and how tables, rows and keys fit together, and you need no coding experience. Queries read almost like English, and because most of the course has you writing them, they stick.
Yes. Pass the twenty-question final assessment at 80 per cent and you get an OBA certificate of completion that an employer can verify online. It isn't a Microsoft certification, and the course isn't exam prep for one. The databases you build along the way are the other half of the proof.
Download the free info pack first. It walks you through every module, what you'll build and what you need before you start, so you can enrol knowing exactly what you're getting. If you'd like to talk it through, get in touch and we'll help you choose.
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