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Basic SQL for Data Engineers ORDER BY, LIMIT, OFFSET

Basic SQL for Data Engineers

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SQL Fundamentals & Data Types

What is a relational database: tables, rows, PKs, FKs, NULLs

Data types: text, numeric, boolean, date/time

SELECT statement

Basic arithmetic, string functions

CRUD & Data Modification

SQL Queries Types

CREATE TABLE, DROP, and ALTER

INSERT new data into tables

UPDATE and DELETE with safe filtering

Transactions: BEGIN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK

Constraints: NOT NULL, UNIQUE, PRIMARY KEY, FOREIGN KEY

Filtering & Sorting

WHERE conditions: IN, BETWEEN, LIKE, IS NULL

Logical operators: AND, OR, NOT

ORDER BY, LIMIT, OFFSET

Dealing with NULLs in filters

Aggregations & Grouping

Aggregate functions: COUNT, SUM, AVG, MIN, MAX

GROUP BY and HAVING

Combining aggregates with filters

NULLs and GROUP BY edge cases

Multi-Table Queries & Joins

INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN, RIGHT JOIN, FULL OUTER JOIN

Self-joins and CROSS JOIN

Anti-joins / semi-joins: NOT EXISTS, EXISTS

Best practices for multi-table queries

Window Functions & Analytics

PARTITION BY and ORDER BY in window context

ROW_NUMBER, RANK, DENSE_RANK, NTILE

LAG, LEAD, FIRST_VALUE, LAST_VALUE

Running totals and moving averages

Mini Project

Wrap-Up

SQL Best Practices for Data Engineers

What’s Next? (Advanced SQL, Data Warehouses, dbt)

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