SQL Tutorial for Beginners

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how you can write your own SQL queries. You don't need any prior knowledge and we're going to use all free tools. By the end of this video, you'll know how to retrieve data from databases. At the end, I'll show you a neat trick to write some of the most complex queries with very little effort. SQL stands for structured query language. It's a language that you can use to talk to your database. You can also use it to retrieve, filter, sort, combine, add, update, and delete data in a database. It's basically a language you can use to interact with the database. The great thing is that anyone can learn how to write SQL queries. You definitely don't need a degree in computer science. And once you know it, you'll have another superpower that you can use at work. ⌚ Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 00:37 Why learn SQL? 01:49 What is SQL? 02:25 What is a database? 03:09 Relational database management systems 04:11 Install Microsoft SQL Server 06:51 Install SQL Server Management Studio 07:26 Connect to server 08:13 Object Explorer 09:26 Restore sample database 10:42 Tables 14:33 Primary keys 15:57 Database diagrams 17:57 Data types 18:30 Select 24:50 Filtering with where 32:02 Inner join & outer join 38:21 Order by 39:01 Functions including getdate, sum, count 41:02 Group by 41:20 Bonus: Query designer 44:09 Wrap up