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Intermediate SQL

Beginner 4 hours English Course Certificate
SkillsSQLAggregationGroupingFilteringSortingData analysis

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This DataCamp course moves you from your first SQL queries to the ones analysts actually write day to day.

Good for: Levelling up from SQL basics to everyday analyst queries.

Skip if: You have never written SQL, or want advanced/administration topics.

Working against a films database, it covers filtering, aggregation, sorting and grouping, and presenting results cleanly — the step that turns raw rows into real answers. It's the natural follow-on to an introductory SQL course, so it assumes you've written some SQL already, and it stops short of advanced or administration topics. You reach it through DataCamp's subscription (roughly $14/month on the annual plan, first chapter free), and the completion certificate documents the learning rather than certifying it. Core SQL like this doesn't change (as of 2026).

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About this course

Intermediate SQL takes you beyond the absolute basics into the queries analysts write every day. Using a films database, it covers filtering, aggregation, sorting and grouping, and presenting results cleanly — turning raw rows into actionable insight across about four hours of in-browser practice.

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Instructor

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Jasmin Ludolf
DataCamp instructor

Created by a DataCamp team including Jasmin Ludolf, a senior data science and AI content developer, with engineering and curriculum colleagues.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. As the name says, it is intermediate — it assumes you already know the fundamentals like selecting, filtering, and simple queries, and builds from there. If SQL is new, do an introductory course first; arriving without the basics means struggling with the more advanced querying this course teaches rather than building smoothly on a foundation.

More advanced querying: filtering and summarising data more powerfully, grouping and aggregating, and often the beginnings of combining tables and handling more complex logic. It moves you from basic single-table queries toward the kind of analysis real work requires, building the querying skills that make SQL genuinely useful for answering business questions from data.

Partly. DataCamp's free tier gives you the first chapter, and there is usually a full-access free-trial week, but completing the course requires a Premium subscription (around 25 US dollars a month). So you can sample the opening material free, but finishing it and accessing the wider SQL track is a paid subscription.

It is a focused course — typically a few hours of interactive content — as one step in DataCamp's SQL learning path. Because it is interactive, the time goes into actually writing queries rather than passive watching, which is slower but more effective. Treat it as a building block toward genuinely job-relevant SQL rather than complete training on its own.

Yes — you get a DataCamp statement of accomplishment for the course. Treat it as a marker of effort rather than a formal credential; data roles value demonstrable SQL skill on real problems. The genuine value is being able to write more capable queries, which you show through practice on actual datasets far more than through the certificate.
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