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5 Jun 2025
Agnieszka Kozubek-Krycuń

SQL Queries You'll Actually Use in Real Life

Learn the essential SQL queries that data analysts, marketers, and product teams rely on every day – with simple, relatable examples. When you're just starting with SQL, it's easy to get overwhelmed by syntax and theory. But here’s the truth: most professionals – whether they’re data analysts, marketers, or product managers – use a small set of SQL queries over and over to get real work done. You don’t need to learn everything at once.
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3 Jun 2025
Jakub Romanowski

5 Things you can Build With SQL (Even if You’ve Never Coded Before)

If you're completely new to coding and wondering what SQL is even good for, you're in the right place. This article will walk you through five easy and useful things you can build with SQL, even if you've never written a line of code before. Whether you're curious about data, switching careers, or just want to build something practical, this beginner guide to SQL will help you take your first step.
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2 Jun 2025
Jakub Romanowski

Free Course of the Month: 2024 Monthly SQL Practice Sets – Advanced

Ready to take your SQL skills to the next level? This June, you can access our most hands-on advanced course – 2024 Advanced SQL Practice Challenges – completely free. Whether you're preparing for a job interview, handling complex data at work, or just want to challenge yourself with real SQL tasks, this course offers exactly what you need. It's packed with high-level exercises based on realistic business problems that will sharpen your thinking and test your skills.
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1 Jun 2025
LearnSQL.com Team

New Monthly SQL Practice for June 2025!

Are you a SQL beginner that needs some interactive exercises to practice writing queries? Take up the challenge in our June SQL Practice course! In our June 2025 SQL Practice, you’ll meet Damiano – a young entrepreneur who wants to kick-start his car rental business. He needs you to help him gather the right data and statistics on his company’s performance. Can you use your SQL skills to help him find the data?
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29 May 2025
Jakub Romanowski

Supercharge Your Notion Workflow With SQL

If you're using Notion to stay organized but feel like it's missing something when it comes to data analysis, you're not alone. In this article, I’ll show you how to supercharge your Notion workflow with SQL so you can go beyond tracking tasks – and start making smarter, data-driven decisions. I’ve always liked using Notion to keep things organized – whether it’s tracking projects at work, planning content, or just storing personal notes.
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27 May 2025
Agnieszka Kozubek-Krycuń

How to Build a Data Dashboard (Even if You Just Started Learning SQL)

Dive into building your own data dashboard with this beginner-friendly guide—even if you're just starting with SQL. Using BigQuery, public datasets, and Looker Studio, you'll learn how to easily create an impressive dashboard. If you're a data analyst—or aiming to become one—learning SQL is essential. SQL, or Structured Query Language, is the language used to pull and analyze data from databases, helping you turn raw numbers into real insights. But if you’re just starting out, coming up with project ideas can be the hardest part.
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22 May 2025
Jakub Romanowski

Full-Text Search in SQL: Going Beyond LIKE Queries

If you're looking for smarter ways to search through your database, you're in the right place. In this article, I’ll show you how to use full-text search in SQL to go beyond basic LIKE queries and start writing more powerful, accurate, and efficient searches. Have you ever written a SQL query using LIKE – something like WHERE name LIKE '%apple%' – and thought, "Okay, this kind of works... but isn't there something more advanced?
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20 May 2025
Agnieszka Kozubek-Krycuń

Beginner SQL Project: Build a Report With BigQuery and Looker

Want to practice your SQL skills on a real dataset? In this beginner-friendly project, you’ll use BigQuery and Looker to explore Chicago’s crime data and build your first interactive report – no advanced experience needed! If you want to get better at SQL, nothing beats working on real projects. Practice is where your skills truly grow – and today, you’ll take a big step forward. In this beginner-friendly project, you’ll create a simple crime report based on the Chicago Crime public dataset, using BigQuery to write SQL queries and Looker Studio to build an interactive dashboard.
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15 May 2025
Jakub Romanowski

Beyond the DBA: Exploring Emerging Data Roles for SQL Enthusiasts

SQL skills are in high demand – not just for maintaining databases, but for powering analytics, insights, and automation across industries. While Database Administrators (DBAs) still play an important role, the data field has expanded to include positions like Data Engineers, Analysts, and BI Developers that use SQL in new and practical ways. In this article, you'll explore how these roles differ, what skills they require, and how you can move into them by building on your existing SQL knowledge.
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13 May 2025
Agnieszka Kozubek-Krycuń

SQL and Chill: 5 Fun Datasets to Practice With on a Friday Night

Tired of boring practice datasets that make SQL feel like work? Kick back and sharpen your skills with five fun, quirky datasets that make learning SQL feel more like playing. It’s Friday night. You’re not in the mood to go out, there’s nothing good left to stream, and your brain is craving something a little more satisfying than scrolling your phone. So you fire up your laptop, open your SQL editor, and settle in for a different kind of unwind.
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