Head First SQL

This thoroughly revised book teaches you SQL fundamentals in a painless and enjoyable manner. With the Head First series' hands-on, conversational style, you'll quickly grasp SQL concepts, then move to intermediate topics, including stored procedures and cloud databases.

Kimberly Fessel is a data science educator with over a decade of instructional experience. She has supported students in corporate settings, at academic universities, and most recently as director at a data science bootcamp. Kimberly has taught SQL to students for years, both in person and online, along with other data management technologies like MongoDB. She's conducted scores of mock SQL interviews and accordingly knows the most common stumbling blocks for beginners and intermediates.

Kimberly is currently a data science consultant with her own instructional brand, Dr Kim Data. Her educational YouTube channel currently has over 16,000 subscribers, and she plans to launch her first paid online course about data science metrics later this Fall. Kimberly loves to teach in a highly visual, creative manner, and the Head First book series emphatically matches her preferred teaching philosophy.