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SQL Sleuth: Learn Some SQL While Solving a Mystery

By Shawn Oden

Elevator Pitch

Every developer should learn a little SQL. In this session, I teach you how to ask your database the right questions to get the correct answers that you need.

Description

The Data County PD has a database problem, and they need your help to solve a crime.

In this session (modified from Knight Labs’ SQL Murder Mystery), I’ll go over some of the basics of SQL querying to help you learn how to ask your database the right questions to get the correct answers that you need.