SQL Foundations

This practical, beginner-friendly course is designed to help business professionals and aspiring analysts understand how to create, manage, and interact with relational databases using SQL. Whether you’re working with spreadsheets or preparing to work with larger datasets, this course will give you the foundational skills needed to organize, store, and retrieve data efficiently.

Through step-by-step video lessons, you’ll learn how to install SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), create your own database, design tables with appropriate data types, and insert, update, or delete records using SQL commands. You’ll also explore how relational databases work and how to back up your data for security.

By the end of the course, you’ll not only understand the logic behind databases—you’ll be able to build one from scratch.