SQL for Data Reporting: Build Analytics and Dashboards

Organizations rely on accurate data to make critical business decisions, but raw databases are rarely ready for direct analysis. This text-based course guides you through the process of querying, cleaning, and structuring database information into professional business reports. You will progress from understanding relational database structures to writing advanced analytical queries. By learning how to clean messy data, validate results, and apply modern SQL techniques like window functions and Common Table Expressions (CTEs), you will gain the skills needed to generate reliable reports and prepare data for business dashboards. What you'll learn: - Explore database structures using Entity-Relationship (ER) diagrams to understand data connections - Clean and validate raw database records to ensure report accuracy and handle missing values safely - Write complex queries using modern Common Table Expressions (CTEs) for clean and readable code - Apply window functions to calculate running totals, rankings, and percentages of totals - Construct layered calculations to build key performance indicators (KPIs) and performance metrics - Structure query outputs specifically optimized for business intelligence and dashboard tools The course begins with foundational database concepts and data exploration techniques. You will then progress through structured text-based lessons and practical code examples covering query design, data validation, and advanced analytical calculations using realistic datasets. This course is designed for aspiring data analysts, business professionals, and beginners who want to transition from basic querying to advanced reporting. No prior database administration experience is required. Start reading today to build the essential database skills needed for modern business analysis.