While I truly appreciate Dr. Severence's enthusiasm and his lectures on the historical and theoretical background of SQL (e.g., data models), I found this course lacking in a few aspects. The major one being the fact that it contains very little practice and active learning. I would recommend taking Sadie St. Lawrence's course (SQL for Data Science), which is also aimed at beginners but has a number advantages that I will list below. In the case that her lectures come across as confusing at some point (they're a bit faster, and perhaps skip a few of basic introductory points), take both courses - they only take about a day to complete. The main positive points in SQL for Data Science are: (1) Very structured course with downloadable comprehensive slides. (2) No need to download and install a SQL server. (3) The online coding practice is very engaging, but not too hard. (4) The course covers more material than this one in 4 weeks. BTW, If you are not a data scientist you may ignore some of the professional jargon that pops up occasionally (not too often) - it is not central to the course.

The course covers SQL broadly and provides a few notions on how to design and create relational databases and what code to use. The lecturer is great, explains things well and clearly. However, the course's biggest flaw, in my opinion, is that it doesn't really teach how to use SQL. There a few examples on how to create tables and insert data into tables and examples of some, very limited, query commands. But that's it. It never explains the syntax, nor provides a list of commands in a structured way, detailing what they do and how they should be used. Furthermore, the assignments are way too easy. They basically require the learner to repeat what was covered in the lectures, whether the learner understands it or not. Since the lectures cover so little, it would be useful to have challenging assignments that would require a little independent research.

Good to start with SQL, but a bit too easy for practical use.

Course is really informative, content and assignments are good

The Instructor came down to the level of beginner and started with basics and baby steps (especially getting the MAMP ready) - I would have liked to do a couple of more exercises. I liked it and I will take courses offered by this instructor in future.

Learn a lot about sql including the basic operations and the reason why relative relation databases exist and how to build simple databases uisng different tools.

no one answer questions , there is no big material , cant understand the teacher .

This course is very helpful to get me start self learning SQL, but over all it was a bit too easy.

If you are newbie like me I strongly recommend you to try this course. Thanks for the amazing content Dr. Chuck!

Both the Web design and Web application series are very good! Highly recommended.

A great and simple introduction to relational databases. Dr Chuck is a great online tutor and it is a pity that more MOOCs don't have such engaging lecturers. Highly recommended!

Great first look into SQL.

I can't tell if the content is too chill before I use it elsewhere. But it is a good course in general. The instructor's teaching style is comprehensive, although too verbose as well.

I'm very like this course. It help me to improve the skill about database. Thanks professor

Great course, I've managed to under the concepts of junction tables and JOIN clause, which is extemly important.

I enjoyed the course a lot. It has been a number of years since I studied SQL, and it helped me to get back up to speed.

The Course was fun and knowledgeable. The way he explain things in simpler way is a

Great SQL entry point course. I'd recommend, that after you complete it you check some of the theory arround ACID properties, Transactions, DML, DDL, etc.

Excellent course and the course is well structured. Excellent for a beginner.

This course really helped me a lot

One of the best courses I have taken.

Enjoyed the class and gained knowledge!

Very well designed course.

Pretty good! But still, more applicable contents are expected.

Very helpful for a beginner