Learn to create and manipulate databases using SQL. On this course from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, you will learn about databases and how to use SQL to search and manipulate the data they store.
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Along the way you'll learn about primary keys and table relationships, as well as how to create joins to search multiple tables.
In the final week, you'll finish by grouping and looking at exporting data from the database.
What you'll learn
Over the following three weeks, you will:
- Explain the key terms used to describe databases
- Produce SQL statements to search and update a database
- Explain the comparison of databases to spreadsheets
- Apply filters in SQL statements
- Demonstrate how to use SQL statements to create relationships for tables in a database
- Produce SQL statements to search across multiple tables
Syllabus
This course will cover:
- What are databases used for?
- Why use a database or a spreadsheet?
- Create SQL statements to search a database
- The role of primary keys
- Add data using SQL statements
- Apply relationships to tables within a database
- Use joins to search across multiple tables
- Group data in a database