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How to Learn SQL for Data Analytics

6 min readJun 14, 2024

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So… you want to become a data analyst.

Maybe you already have a full-time job and want to make a career transition into the data industry.

Or perhaps you’re brand new to the field and are actively looking for jobs in analytics.

Regardless of which category you fall into, there is one skill that data analytics interviews will always test you on: SQL.

In this article, I am going to give you a complete roadmap to learning SQL from scratch.

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This article has been divided into three sections. Feel free to skip to any section you’d like:

  1. What is SQL, and why is it a must-have skill for data analysts?
  2. How to learn SQL?
  3. How to prepare for SQL interviews?

While I’ve seen many resources cover the first two points extensively, many tend to gloss…

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