A self-paced introductory course on relational databases and SQL from Stanford Online, covering how to write SQL queries and work with database design basics. Commenters describe it as short and built around good exercises.

Commenters point to its good exercises and short length as a practical way to learn SQL.

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1. Strongly recommendsbouddar/learnprogramming2014in “Need to learn SQL. Best option?”▲ 9

   I highly recommend this Stanford class: https://class.stanford.edu/courses/DB/SQL/SelfPaced/about It has good exercises and is quite short. There is also this online tutorial: http://sqlschool.modeanalytics.com/

2. RecommendsEcho491r/learnprogramming2017in “Is there a course like FCC for MySQL?”

   I Might suggest Stanford's course that they offer for SQL stuff: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/SQL/SelfPaced/courseware/3d4b35a7e27b48d99f190cdcfcb40db8/fae22ef7ef60467f94b8f7b6f0220a4f/

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