Intermediate SQL Bootcamp Remote (Online)
Celia Fryar
Data Analytics Instructor and Courseware Developer
Craig Fryar
Data Executive, Platform Architect and Technologist,
Consultant
About This Workshop
Enabling analysts to broaden their SQL skills to retrieve and manipulate data from multiple sources into timely, cohesive, informative analysis.
Takeaways
We will be going over the following:
- JOIN and UNION with Aliasing
- Primary and Foreign Keys
- Aggregation and Functions
- Complex JOINs with multiple tables
- NULL values and related SQL functions
- GROUP BY combined with HAVING
- CASE and COALESCE
Preparation
- Understanding of SQL fundamentals including the use of the following command line functions:
- SELECT queries that include FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, LIMIT.
- Familiarity with using GROUP BY and HAVING in SELECT queries.
- General understanding of accessing remote/cloud databases.
Laptop, Mac or Windows, with a minimum of 8G (16G preferred) available memory and 200 MB available to download applications; Preload pgAdmin and PostgreSQL per instruction PDF. Instructions attached.
About the Instructors
Celia Fryar Data Analytics Instructor and Courseware Developer
Celia is a systems engineering and data analytics manager, with over thirteen years’ experience in technical instruction for both onsite and classroom corporate and government end-users, administrators and OEM resellers. She has developed curriculum and taught courses in analytics, SQL, networking and communications while working with companies including Sun Microsystems, AT&T, Texas Department of Public Safety, PG&E, Nike and data.world. She has managed, mentored and trained technical systems engineers, software developers, and application support specialists and contributed to network engineering certification training. When not elbow deep in data or in front of the classroom, she likes to scuba dive, make quilts and hang out with her kids.
Student Testimonies:
“I recommend Celia 10/10 to anyone looking to step up their data analytics skills.”
“She enabled me to get a job in data analytics -- with no previous education or experience.”
“Celia strikes a great balance of being a teacher, mentor, and technical expert.”
“She taught me the skills I needed to brush up on for a new position at work.”
In recognition of her exemplary service in the classroom, Celia has been selected as a member of General Assembly's Distinguished Faculty program. She serves as the chair of GA's Product Advisory Board for our Data Analytics courses.
Craig Fryar
Data Executive, Platform Architect and Technologist,
Consultant
Craig Fryar is the former Global Director of Enterprise Strategy for Tableau. Prior to that he served as Head of Global Business Intelligence at Wargaming.net, an award-winning online game developer and publisher, and one of the leaders in the free-to-play MMO market.
Prior to Wargaming, Fryar was the Director of Analytics at BioWare, a division of Electronic Arts, where he launched, staffed and managed the analytics and reporting teams to inform data-driven design and executive decisions for global AAA computer and console software titles, including Star Wars: The Old Republic and Mass Effect 3.
He has also served in various executive positions leading highly-effective teams within innovative analytics and data services, hardware, software, simulations, biotech products and R&D.
Fryar holds a degree in Business and Communications from Texas Tech University.