Extra challenges (optional)
Last updated on 2024-03-26 | Edit this page
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Overview
Questions
- Are there extra challenges to practice translating plain English queries to SQL queries?
Objectives
- Extra challenges to practice creating SQL queries.
Extra challenges (optional)
SQL queries help us ask specific questions which we want to answer about our data. The real skill with SQL is to know how to translate our questions into a sensible SQL queries (and subsequently visualise and interpret our results).
Have a look at the following questions; these questions are written in plain English. Can you translate them to SQL queries and give a suitable answer?
Also, if you would like to learn more SQL concepts and try additional challenges, see the Software Carpentry Databases and SQL lesson.