SQL courses can help you learn database design, data manipulation, query optimization, and data retrieval techniques. You can build skills in writing complex queries, managing relational databases, and ensuring data integrity. Many courses introduce tools like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft SQL Server, demonstrating how to use these platforms for data analysis and reporting. You'll also explore key topics such as joins, indexing, and transaction management, which are vital for effective data management and analysis.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Skills you'll gain: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking, Financial Regulation, Mobile Banking, Emerging Technologies, Technology Strategies, Payment Systems, Blockchain, Business Technologies, Consumer Lending, Entrepreneurship, Big Data, Market Trend, Innovation, Strategic Partnership
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Colorado System
Skills you'll gain: Tidyverse (R Package), Clinical Data Management, Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA) Compliance, R Programming, Medical Privacy, Google Cloud Platform, Data Ethics, Data Science, Health Informatics, Data Processing, Electronic Medical Record, SQL, Data Access
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Meta
Skills you'll gain: Full-Stack Web Development, Front-End Web Development, Django (Web Framework), Scalability, Responsive Web Design, Web Applications, Back-End Web Development, MySQL, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cloud Computing, Application Programming Interface (API), Virtual Environment, Javascript, Database Management
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Snowflake
Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Generative AI, AI Orchestration, AI Workflows, LLM Application, Data Engineering, Data Manipulation, Model Context Protocol, Snowflake Schema, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Modeling, Model Deployment, Tool Calling, Data Warehousing, Unstructured Data, Embeddings, Cloud Development, SQL, Natural Language Processing
Beginner · Professional Certificate · 1 - 3 Months

New York Institute of Finance
Skills you'll gain: Tensorflow, Keras (Neural Network Library), Financial Trading, Data Pipelines, Applied Machine Learning, Technical Analysis, Machine Learning, Securities Trading, Statistical Machine Learning, Market Trend, Financial Market, Deep Learning, Python Programming, Predictive Modeling, Model Evaluation, Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months
Skills you'll gain: Data Visualization Software, Tableau Software, Financial Modeling, Business Process, Peer Review, Presentations, Property Management, Data Analysis, MySQL, Financial Forecasting, Risk Analysis, Real Estate, Microsoft Excel, Profit and Loss (P&L) Management, Analytics, SQL
Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: PySpark, Matplotlib, Apache Spark, Big Data, Data Processing, Distributed Computing, Data Management, Data Visualization, Data Analysis, Data Manipulation, Data Cleansing, Query Languages, Python Programming
Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skills you'll gain: LangChain, Tool Calling, LLM Application, AI Workflows, Agentic systems, Generative AI Agents, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Application Development, Software Development
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Google Cloud
Skills you'll gain: Natural Language Processing, Transfer Learning, Tensorflow, Google Cloud Platform, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Embeddings, Deep Learning, AI Workflows, Artificial Neural Networks, Feature Engineering, Model Evaluation
Advanced · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Unsupervised Learning, Dimensionality Reduction, Scikit Learn (Machine Learning Library), Machine Learning Algorithms, Data Preprocessing, Feature Engineering, Machine Learning, Text Mining, Data Science, Big Data, Data Analysis, Algorithms
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Corporate Finance Institute
Skills you'll gain: Dashboard, Tableau Software, Interactive Data Visualization, Excel Formulas, Data Visualization Software, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, SQL, Data Presentation, E-Commerce, Databases, Data Manipulation, Data Storytelling, Data Analysis, Performance Analysis, Data Cleansing, Relational Databases, Business Intelligence, Data Transformation, Financial Analysis
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Data Warehousing, MongoDB, IBM Cognos Analytics, Extract, Transform, Load, NoSQL, Apache Spark, IBM DB2, Big Data, Business Intelligence, PySpark, Data Pipelines, Analytics, Databases, Database Design, Data Architecture, Apache Airflow, MySQL, Relational Databases, SQL, Python Programming
Advanced · Course · 1 - 3 Months