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JOINS Foundations: The AS PostgreSQL Statement

Intro to JOINS: the AS PostgreSQL Statement What’s up SQL people? We’re back, and better than ever, in our foray to learn PostgreSQL. Since we’ve completed some intermediate skills challenges & learned GROUP BY, it’s time to examine JOINS. Before we examine JOINS, there’s a key foundation piece we must cover first: the AS statement […]

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PostgreSQL Intermediate Skills Test

Hey there, SQL-ites. Time for another (yes, another!) PostgreSQL skills challenge. It’s our last stop before moving into more intermediate and advanced PostgreSQL skills, such as JOINS. If you’re just joining this series on SQL, we previously covered the HAVING statement & GROUP BY. Here’s the home page of our journey in learning PostgreSQL. Today, we […]

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The HAVING Clause in PostgreSQL

Howdy SQL-ites! Welcome back to our next step in learning SQL. After a long hiatus, we recently stumbled our way through some intermediate SQL statement challenges, namely on GROUP BY. Today, we’re back in the flow, and learning about the HAVING clause in PostgreSQL.   About the HAVING Clause in PostgreSQL The HAVING clause is most […]

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Intermediate SQL Skills Challenge: GROUP BY

Hey there SQL-ites! Wow, it’s been awhile since I’ve last posted. Work has been crazy busy again, and just life in general. Sure feels good to be back, learning again! I’m daringly dropping straight back into my learnings from where we left off…in April!? Crazy. Anyway, let’s get back to brass tacks. Before life and […]

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GROUP BY SQL Statement

Introducing the GROUP BY SQL Statement in PostgreSQL ‘Ello SQL geeks! Welcome back to our SQL learning journey. We left off with a beginner SQL skills challenge and the aggregate SQL functions: MIN, MAX, AVG and SUM. Today we’re looking at the GROUP BY statement. We’ll learn about this function in PostgreSQL and walk through […]

SQL Aggregate Functions: Min, Max, Avg and Sum

Welcome back, SQL nerds! We’re back in action on the journey of learning SQL, after a beginner PostgreSQL skills challenge. We’re reaching the end of basic functions and queries with this article. Based on what we’ve learned so far, we can do basic counting, filtering, sorting and pattern matching against PostgreSQL databases. If you’re just […]

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Beginner SQL Skills Challenge!

Howdy, SQL geeks. Hope this post finds you swell! Over the past few months, we’ve gained a ton of ground in learning SQL, or at least I have. 🙂 Let’s take a moment to: Test our knowledge of SQL skills learned thus far Start seeing SQL queries less as statements of code, and more as […]

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What is Machine Learning?

Hello there, fellow Machine Learning (ML) students! Welcome back to our crash course in starting machine learning from an absolute beginner’s perspective. In our previous article, we covered an introduction to Machine Learning, answering several key questions: Where is machine learning used in our lives? Where did machine learning come from? Where is machine learning […]

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The LIKE Statement: SQL Statement Fundamentals

Howdy folks! We are overdue for another installation of SQL learning. I’ve slept a few times since the past couple of articles on how to learn SQL. Previously, we talked about the IN Statement, BETWEEN statement, and ORDER BY clause. In this article, we’ll learn how to execute the LIKE statement in SQL queries. Let’s […]

The IN Statement: SQL Fundamentals

Howdy, budding SQL masters! It’s been a minute since the last SQL post! I’ve taken some time to devote to Alexa Skills, some other personal housekeeping, and adopting a dog with my wife!! Last time we talked SQL, we learned the BETWEEN statement to hone in on the exact values we wanted for a SQL […]