Quick Recap of SQL Concepts

1️⃣ FROM clause: Specifies the tables from which data will be retrieved.
2️⃣ WHERE clause: Filters rows based on specified conditions.
3️⃣ GROUP BY clause: Groups rows that have the same values into summary rows.
4️⃣ HAVING clause: Filters groups based on specified conditions.
5️⃣ SELECT clause: Specifies the columns to be retrieved.
6️⃣ WINDOW functions: Functions that perform calculations across a set of table rows.
7️⃣ AGGREGATE functions: Functions like COUNT, SUM, AVG that perform calculations on a set of values.
8️⃣ UNION / UNION ALL: Combines the result sets of multiple SELECT statements.
9️⃣ ORDER BY clause: Sorts the result set based on specified columns.
🔟 LIMIT / OFFSET (or FETCH / OFFSET in some databases): Controls the number of rows returned and starting point for retrieval.

🔅 Most important SQL commands

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Week 1: Beginner Level

Day 1-3: Introduction and Setup
1. Day 1: Introduction to SQL, its importance, and various database systems.
2. Day 2: Installing a SQL database (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL).
3. Day 3: Setting up a sample database and practicing basic commands.

Day 4-7: Basic SQL Queries
4. Day 4: SELECT statement, retrieving data from a single table.
5. Day 5: WHERE clause and filtering data.
6. Day 6: Sorting data with ORDER BY.
7. Day 7: Aggregating data with GROUP BY and using aggregate functions (COUNT, SUM, AVG).

Week 2-3: Intermediate Level

Day 8-14: Working with Multiple Tables
8. Day 8: Introduction to JOIN operations.
9. Day 9: INNER JOIN and LEFT JOIN.
10. Day 10: RIGHT JOIN and FULL JOIN.
11. Day 11: Subqueries and correlated subqueries.
12. Day 12: Creating and modifying tables with CREATE, ALTER, and DROP.
13. Day 13: INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.
14. Day 14: Understanding indexes and optimizing queries.

Day 15-21: Data Manipulation
15. Day 15: CASE statements for conditional logic.
16. Day 16: Using UNION and UNION ALL.
17. Day 17: Data type conversions (CAST and CONVERT).
18. Day 18: Working with date and time functions.
19. Day 19: String manipulation functions.
20. Day 20: Error handling with TRY...CATCH.
21. Day 21: Practice complex queries and data manipulation tasks.

Week 4: Advanced Level

Day 22-28: Advanced Topics
22. Day 22: Working with Views.
23. Day 23: Stored Procedures and Functions.
24. Day 24: Triggers and transactions.
25. Day 25: Windows Function

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26. Day 26: SQL Project-1
27. Day 27: SQL Project-2
28. Day 28: SQL Project-3
29. Day 29: Practice questions set
30. Day 30: Final review and practice, explore advanced topics in depth, or work on a personal project.

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👉🏻 Basic Aggregation function:
1️⃣ AVG
2️⃣ COUNT
3️⃣ SUM
4️⃣ MIN
5️⃣ MAX

👉🏻 JOINS
1️⃣ Left
2️⃣ Inner
3️⃣ Self (Important, Practice questions on self join)

👉🏻 Windows Function (Important)
1️⃣ Learn how partitioning works
2️⃣ Learn the different use cases where Ranking/Numbering Functions are used? ( ROW_NUMBER,RANK, DENSE_RANK, NTILE)
3️⃣ Use Cases of LEAD & LAG functions
4️⃣ Use cases of Aggregate window functions

👉🏻 GROUP BY
👉🏻 WHERE vs HAVING
👉🏻 CASE STATEMENT
👉🏻 UNION vs Union ALL
👉🏻 LOGICAL OPERATORS

Other Commonly used functions:
👉🏻 IFNULL
👉🏻 COALESCE
👉🏻 ROUND
👉🏻 Working with Date Functions
1️⃣ EXTRACTING YEAR/MONTH/WEEK/DAY
2️⃣ Calculating date differences

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👉🏻Views & Triggers (optional)

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Use Indexing: Properly indexing your database tables can significantly speed up query performance by allowing the database to quickly locate the rows needed for a query.

Optimize Joins: Minimize the number of joins and use appropriate join types (e.g., INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN) to ensure efficient data retrieval.

Avoid SELECT * : Instead of selecting all columns using SELECT *, explicitly specify only the columns needed for the query to reduce unnecessary data transfer and processing overhead.

Use WHERE Clause Wisely: Filter rows early in the query using WHERE clause to reduce the dataset size before joining or aggregating data.

Avoid Subqueries: Whenever possible, rewrite subqueries as JOINs or use Common Table Expressions (CTEs) for better performance.

Limit the Use of DISTINCT: Minimize the use of DISTINCT as it requires sorting and duplicate removal, which can be resource-intensive for large datasets.

Optimize GROUP BY and ORDER BY: Use GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses judiciously, and ensure that they are using indexed columns whenever possible to avoid unnecessary sorting.

Consider Partitioning: Partition large tables to distribute data across multiple nodes, which can improve query performance by reducing I/O operations.

Monitor Query Performance: Regularly monitor query performance using tools like query execution plans, database profiler, and performance monitoring tools to identify and address bottlenecks.

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◆ Primary Key = Unique Key + Not Null constraint
◆ To perform case insensitive search use UPPER() function ex. UPPER(customer_name) LIKE ‘A%A’
◆ LIKE operator is for string data type
◆ COUNT(*), COUNT(1), COUNT(0) all are same
◆ All aggregate functions ignore the NULL values
◆ Aggregate functions MIN, MAX, SUM, AVG, COUNT are for int data type whereas STRING_AGG is for string data type
◆ For row level filtration use WHERE and aggregate level filtration use HAVING
◆ UNION ALL will include duplicates where as UNION excludes duplicates 
◆ If the results will not have any duplicates, use UNION ALL instead of UNION
◆ We have to alias the subquery if we are using the columns in the outer select query
◆ Subqueries can be used as output with NOT IN condition.
◆ CTEs look better than subqueries. Performance wise both are same.
◆ When joining two tables , if one table has only one value then we can use 1=1 as a condition to join the tables. This will be considered as CROSS JOIN.
◆ Window functions work at ROW level.
◆ The difference between RANK() and DENSE_RANK() is that RANK() skips the rank if the values are the same.
◆ EXISTS works on true/false conditions. If the query returns at least one value, the condition is TRUE. All the records corresponding to the conditions are returned.

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Here is a quick cheat sheet of some of the most essential SQL commands:

SELECT - Retrieves data from a database

UPDATE - Updates existing data in a database

DELETE - Removes data from a database

INSERT - Adds data to a database

CREATE - Creates an object such as a database or table

ALTER - Modifies an existing object in a database

DROP -Deletes an entire table or database

ORDER BY - Sorts the selected data in an ascending or descending order

WHERE – Condition used to filter a specific set of records from the database

GROUP BY - Groups a set of data by a common parameter

HAVING - Allows the use of aggregate functions within the query

JOIN - Joins two or more tables together to retrieve data

INDEX - Creates an index on a table, to speed up search times.