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Is It the Death of SQL?

Top 3 Reasons to Learn SQL

If you hold the belief that SQL is an old, stodgy language, getting ready to be put out to pasture, then you may want to rethink your position on it. SQL is a workhorse that is not only likely to stick

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Using SQL to Find When Members First Subscribed

Do you have a subscription service that you track in a relational database? Businesses that capture this membership information often want to know their members' starting dates and last dates. This can

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Soup Food Truck

Goldilocks and the Three SQL Concepts – Window Functions, Case Statements, and CTEs

The Goldilocks Seasonal Soup (GSS) Company is a food truck that serves soups during lunch and dinner. They try to make their soups at just the right temperature, hence the truck's name. They also try

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Should You Learn SQL?

Most people think that SQL is an arcane language. If you’re not familiar with SQL, it stands for Structured Query Language. It is the language of databases. Many companies have years of records stored

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How to Bucket Data in SQL

How to Bucket Data in SQL

Are your employees wondering if they are being paid fairly in your organization? Suppose your HR department wants you to create a tool that will help employees determine how their salaries measure compared

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Why Data Scientists Need to Learn SQL Programming

SQL is short for Structured Query Language. It was developed in the 1980s to help database programmers work with database content. While databases existed before SQL, working with them required database

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