This fabulous course instructed by Dr.Jana Schaich Borg of Duke University have given me the sound principles guide and extensive practices. It is my great honor and pleasure to attend this course, where the classmates and instructors are very helpful through online forums. I have learned lots of new things on SQL, database, Teradata programming. It is challenging, but we made it. Thank instructors for their guidance and efforts to go through codes and answer questions. Really enjoyed and accomplished the course timely. Hope we will use these skills to tackle the real business issues in our daily work. Best Regards and Have a nice day, Mei

This Course is great for beginners as well as those who already have some concepts regarding Databases. There are plenty of practice exercises and the data sets also help getting in the taste of business data. The key to successfully retrieve the most from the course is going through all the reading material available and the practice exercises which has plenty of guidance.

However I would love to see some video additions covering some query concepts in the exercises and also comparison between teradata and MySQL the two functional databases in use!

Thank you for this course! The learning experience was great

This course in my favorite course for this specialization. I discovered the Coursera by this course. I was looking for an online course at good price to learn the SQL and/or MySQL and I found this course. Finally, I enrolled in this Duke University specialization to do four courses (course 1 to course 4 of the specialization Excel to MySQL) This course gave me all the knowledge I need for the SQL learning and the database. It was difficult because the course is dense, but easy to learn with the instructors and Coursera platform. This course need to be a credit course. I recommend it to everyone.

This one is the best SQL course I've taken so far. Tried one more by UCDAVIS on coursera before this. The striking differences are, liveliness of the instructor, relevancy of the material to the industry, the quality of the data, level of difficulty of the quizzes, above all introducing to two different languages through hands on exercises before the quiz and very clear documentation. Lot of work has gone into designing this course and hope it benefits to all the learners in the world! Thanks Prof Jana. Keep smiling and teaching!

This course is great, finally that line in my resume is not a lie) I wish we went through this course on coursera back then in my university instead of SQL lessons that we had.

I really apreciated the realistic setup for practice and rather big number of given exercises - very usefull for digestion of information. And by the way Jana is the best lecturer among all the ones I've seen on Coursera, very live, open, enthusiastic and giving information with structure and to the point. Thank you, it was a pleasure.

This course is really awesome!

There are a lot of well designed exercises, which not only trained my skill to write SQL query but also deepen my understanding of relational database. The real business data provides learners an opportunity to get in touch with the real business world.

So I am excited to recommend you to take this course. If you are a new beginner at MySQL, it can help you get started soon. If you already know some basic knowledge about SQL, this course will also be a good resource for practice.

One of the best MOOC courses out there! Challenging but you will learn a lot if you stick with it. Extensive and in-depth lectures/practice exercises on SQL. Appreciate that you learn using two systems, MySQL (through Jupyter) and Teradata. However the Teradata interface is a bit clunky and takes time getting used to.

BTW, Jana is a great instructor and Duke courses, in this track, especially the Tableau and MySQL courses are the best out there at the moment.

I owe whatever I know about SQL to Jana-really thankful. This is an excellent course-would highly recommend it . The real world examples and practical tips are just amazing. Also, I feel Jana's teaching technique makes your think critically and get the confidence to face real world issues. I guess the course requires good amount of time to be invested to complete the assignment etc, but believe me it is worth every second you invest!

Man! This is perhaps the most challenging and rewarding course I've ever taken on Coursera and maybe even in my life. It is obvious that Dr. Jana Schaich Borg spent a lot of time thinking about how to present the materials and concepts in this course. You will not only learn, but you'll learn by doing. The exercises will help you apply what you've learnt and how to apply SQL logic to answer business questions.

Well, such a long journey. Frankly speaking, if you take every single part seriously in the course, you will be so strong in mysql. But is take a lot of time to do so, more than any other course I took on coursera. I even think the course itself should be a speciallization rather than a part of one. And the teacher Jana is amazing. She is beautiful, and I think everyone should love her style. Thanks Jana!

The flow of the course was very well designed so the student does't feel frustrated for not being able to follow the course material, but at the mean time at the end of the course the student has enough knowledge in SQL to be able to implement her knowledge. What I loved the most about the course was working messy real world data.

FYI, the last week of the course takes significantly longer than the rest.

Having gone through a couple of different SQL courses on Coursera, this course is definitely the best. Rather than simply explain and demonstrate SQL programming logic and commends, this course provided a comprehansive solution from a business analyst perspective, as well as considerable hands on exercises. Thank you Jana for offering such a wonderful learning experence.

This course is a master piece

I believe that this course is very well structured and that, besides providing the knowledge of SQL language and different functions in it, it also teaches you how to think like a data analyst. For me it was challenging and it took me some time to complete it but I am very satisfied with what I learned and I am looking forward to continue learning and applying this knowledge in the future.

If you dont have programming experience, you will feel lost in the first few weeks. Like me, i feel like this is wrong thing for me from the beginning. But i have delayed long time and pay a lot of money. i have to learn something worth my money, then step by step, i start to feel the logic and why and how. This is worth the money. i will continue to learn. Thank you very much for sharing.

great course. great example databases. i would suggest renaming the course Managing Big Data with MySQL and TeraData. The Teradata component of the course was very heavy, and all graded pieces of the course used Teradata.

I would also make the assignments graded --- they can be peer reviewed. I think doing the assignments really help, not just completing the quizzes. those are my thoughts.

I'm still in Week 1, but I'm already in love with this course. They give accurate information in a light manner, the exercises are very clear and didactic, and they also give the answers to these exercises which answers all of your potentially uprising questions, alongside with the Video Lectures. It is already giving me the confidence that it will be a great asset to me as a Data Analyst.

This course is thorough, do not start if you don't have the time and dedication to learn how to build complex queries! That said, if you finish the course and complete all of the exercises, you'll come out of it with a thorough understanding of SQL. Even if you don't know all the answers, this course will teach you where and how to find them, and make you do so numerous times to pass.

This is a really nice course to start learning SQL. It introduces the basic framework of correlation database and provides multiple case practices every week. The loading of this class is somehow larger than it is mentioned in the syllabus. So for those who want to learn SQL and willing to spend more than ten hours practicing every week, i strongly recommend this course :)

I have done a number of courses on coursera. After this one, I am now also doing the Tableau course. I think it is fair to say that Jana provides great value. I have seen courses with very shallow content. Jana's are the opposite. It's actually a lot or work to get to the detailed assignments, but that's a good thing. I really get the feeling that I have learned something!

This course is a perfect way to brush up on your SQL skills from zero to a more advanced level. Alternatively to similar SQL courses, this one takes a learning-by-doing approach by means of multiple hands-on exercises using real world databases, which keeps the student engaged and motivated. Plus, Jana is a great instructor and the video contents are clear and concise.

This course is extremely useful and educationally rich. It teaches from the fundamentals, thus, build the foundation for your agility in applying the query languages in dynamic working requests. The interestingly challenging material and the enthusiastic lecturers boost up the excitement in studying and keep you following through the course. Highly recommended!

I you are absolutely new to SQL, I couldn't recommend a better course. Its a wonderful course to take, good explanations and excellent practice opportunities with real databases. The program goes beyond just writing SQL queries but help you to understand the way databases are organized, and it teaches you how to right queries from an analytical perspective.

I highly recommend this course to anyone who is an aspiring data analyst or anyone who wants to learn MySQL. This course is very comprehensive. I am 100% sure that if you can complete this course, you will be confident that no sql query can escape from your sharp eyes. You will be able to find the answer of most of the question your SPAP asks using MySQL.

It's a very comprehensive course, that allows someone with zero knowlege to - after 5 weeks of classes - be pretty confident writing some intermediate queries and also become familar with Jupyter Notebooks which is of great value to me since it is universally used across my company, as well as more 'corporate' software for data retrieving like Teradata.