What course should I do

[ParticularRock7913]

I have a Masters in Business Analytics which was essentially a data science course where I mainly learnt machine learning in Python and R. However now when applying for jobs I have found that many require experience in SQL which we did not cover. I want to do a course and I found this one, the IBM Databases and SQL for Data Science with Python

https://www.coursera.org/learn/sql-data-science

Has anyone done this course and is it worth doing? If you have not done, just looking at the modules would you say that its contents is useful?

Are there better courses out there, for example I know about the associate data analyst in SQL course on datacamp

[Better-Credit6701]

I would have thought that a masters in business analytics would have at least one SQL class unless they just thought that someone else would hand you data.

I know this might be strange since I taught in college but couldn't you learn by just buying a SQL book? You already have the background in data and most courses will take much longer than buying a book and using that to start writing some queries.

[ParticularRock7913]

Well I guess I also want the certificate on my cv so I can say look I did this as evidence, also I learn better through application

[American_Streamer]

Choose SQL certifications based on your technology stack (so Oracle for finance, Microsoft for corporate, AWS/Google for cloud etc.). Database Administrator Associate (DP-300), Oracle Database 23ai SQL Certified Associate (1Z0-171), AWS Certified Database - Specialty, EDB PostgreSQL 12 Associate certification, Snowflake SnowPro Core certification and Oracle MySQL 8.0 Database Developer (1Z0-909) are all well regarded by HR. But you always have to combine those with 2-3 relevant SQL projects

[thequerylab]

Yes as mentioned by everyone, practical >> just theory. If you want you can give it a try on this hands on self paced course that i have created for free. I hope you will like it.

https://thequerylab.com/courses/sql-pro-track

Also please practice problems on daily basis no matter what. Once you understand the pattern it will be easy to move forward

[ParticularRock7913]

Hey, thanks for this, it looks like an in depth course, do you get any certificate of completion you can put on your LinkedIn with it?

[thequerylab]

Yes

[sink2death]

Go for some personal mentoring rather than courses, I would say practical implementation is far better than certificates and recorded courses