SQL (Structured Query Language) is one of the most common languages found in the data profession. Don’t let the NoSQL chatter scare you away from learning SQL, as the appearance of applications such as SQL on Hadoop are testimony that no matter what the underlying data structure, SQL is still going to have a strong presence in the data world

Automating Data Preparation with SQL Server

Getting Full Days Worth of Data

MS SQL Server: Database Diagrams

Simple Methods to Recover MDF File Password

Intro to SQL

1. Install MS SQL Server
2. SQL Select Command
3. SQL Select Functions (Top, Count, Distinct, Min and Max)
4. SQL: Where Clause
5. SQL: Aggregates, Group By, and Having
6. SQL: Case Statement
7. SQL: Intro to Joins
8. SQL: 4 Types of Joins
9. SQL: Coalesce
10. SQL: Stored Procedures
11. SQL: User Defined Functions
12. SQL: Create a View
13. SQL: Working with Date/Time Functions
14. SQL: Learn to use Cursors – List table names
15. SQL: Reindex a Database
16. SQL Server: Importing Excel File to SQL Server

DDL and DML

1. SQL: What is DDL and DML
2. SQL: Common Data Types in MySQL 
3. SQL: Create a Table in SQL
4. SQL: Add, rename, or remove a column from an existing table
5. SQL: Load/Insert data into table
6. SQL: Drop, Delete, and Truncate data

Advanced SQL

1. XML Parsing: Advanced SQL
2. SQL: Check if table exists
3. SQL Server: Linked Servers
4. SQL: Create Temporary Table