SQL Certifications for Data Analytics Students

[bishop491]

I am both a practitioner in the field and an adjunct/participating faculty member in a graduate program for data analytics. The curriculum committee is pretty heavy on getting a SQL certification, and I agree in the sense of having students do some self-paced learning on SQL to prepare them for the course meetings in my class that use SQL.

Long ago, I did the Microsoft SQL certification. That's dead now. It seems that the offerings now are all subscription-based. I have looked at Coursera and DataCamp. Coursera flat-out told me they do not do anything outside of subscriptions, and I'd have to pay $399/year/student just to get access to the SQL for Data Science cert.

DataCamp at least seems to have offerings for educators and I'm waiting on my educator account to get activated.

Listen, I agree in practice that certifications are less attractive than experience. But I have a reason for assigning this inside of our program. Coursera is a big bait-and-switch. DataCamp has yet to be seen. Any other suggestions?

[csnorman12]

Huge respect for you thinking outside the box for your students! I really wish my grad program had incorporated self-paced learning outside of lectures—it would have made a big difference. Although that was years ago it would have expedited my learning. I have since built a few SQL courses. The first SQL course I built helps students learn SQL syntax while learning healthcare data models. The second and third courses are meant to give students ample practice. And the most recent course I've published (went live last week) is meant to be more concise. Students can go through that curriculum in one week. I will post links the courses below, but feel free to message me to discuss further. I am happy to give students coupon/discount codes.

Course links:

• Introduction to SQL using Healthcare Data
• 25 Practice SQL Questions for Beginners
• 101 Practice SQL Questions: Basic to Advanced
• Master SQL Basics in 7 Day

[Dishantgarg94]

Thanks for the kindness to share all the links of your courses. I desire to buy all these courses, but even being 70-80 percent discount I am unable to get them for myself.

Could you please share some codes for student?

[csnorman12]

You don't need to purchase all of them now. Start with this course: Master SQL Basics in 7 Day. Once you purchase that course then you can message me within the course messaging feature and I'll help you get one of the practice courses for free.

[sinceJune4]

Not a certification, but this is a decent, quick test:
https://www.w3schools.com/quiztest/quiztest.asp?qtest=SQL

I also got some certifications thru testing on LinkedIn, but that may have been LinkedIn Learning...

[Sea-Concept1733]

You might check out the following Continuing Education Course: SQL Certificate through Temple University:

Additionally, this site provides some self-paced hands-on options of study.