SQL Data Analytics with Tableau Data Visualisation

Deep dive SQL Server and data analytics queries. Followed by using Tableau to visualise the outputs from the queries

Created by: Paul Scotchford
Data Analyst and Qlik Development Specialist @ awari

What Will I Learn?

• Become highly competent in writing all types of SQL (simple to complex) preparing you for your BI Projects
• With SQL skills learned here you can extract data from any Relational Database including Oracle,PostgreSQL,MySQL and many more
• How to visualise the data using Tableau the most popular data visualisation & business intelligence tool out there
• Write DDL, DCL, TCL code so you can create and manage your own database(s) from scratch
• Be proficient in using SQL Server Management Studio to develop your data analysis solutions
• Work with scenarios that prepare you for the questions that users will ask of their data, including gnarly & complex questions
• Code table Joins from simple to complex so you will never be stuck in this again, a common stumbling block for SQL coders
• Learn to create Primary and Foreign key constraints for data integrity
• Learn the aggregation functions in SQL preparing data for visualisation
• Write powerful Window functions such as LAG()
• Every lecture is followed with an exercise for you to practice what you have learned in the previous lecture
• Quizzes at the end of each section to test your knowledge
• Data Visualisation via Tableau (Public) worksheets to incorporate into dashboards
• Showcase a project dashboard based on your ideas and show this to anyone including prospective employers
• Did I mention Triggers and Stored procedures ? Yes learn these too!
• Understand the difference between old style dated SQL and ANSI SQL best practice
• Learn how to make queries work better with Indexes for query performance enhancement
• What are Common Table Expressions (CTE) find out how to code these and exploit them.
• User defined functions and Table functions are very useful, you will learn to create and use these as well
• Learn to code Cross Joins and how to leverage these in analysis
• Learn about the SQL Server Architecture and SET Theory
• How to Insert , Update and Delete data
• Learning SQL also means you are becoming proficient in T-SQL
• Data wrangling like you would do in the corporate environment
• And many more topics

Requirements

• No prior experience is required as we will start from the very basics.

Target audience

• Anyone looking to learn SQL from scratch to becoming highly competent
• Anyone looking to refresh or enhance existing skills