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I've spent ten years managing the user end side of databases. I can import, run canned reports, manipulate canned reports, and of course export segmented data into excel to maneuver around into whatever reports my higher ups were asking for (I also trained all new staff on how to enter data and created manuals, etc). However, what I couldn't do was code. There usually was some general in-house IT guy who would be able to go into the backend of the database and code in whatever we needed after a quick phone call. I noticed a lot of jobs are paying double just for having SQL. I also noticed Khan Academy has an SQL course. I did a few sections and it looks fairly easy. Is this something that I could learn in a weekend? Or is something a little more time consuming? I was wondering if I spent a weekend taking the Khan course if by next week I could apply to those database jobs requiring SQL...

I've spent ten years managing the user end side of databases. I can import, run canned reports, manipulate canned reports, and of course export segmented data into excel to maneuver around into whatever reports my higher ups were asking for (I also trained all new staff on how to enter data and created manuals, etc). However, what I couldn't do was code. There usually was some general in-house IT guy who would be able to go into the backend of the database and code in whatever we needed after a quick phone call. I noticed a lot of jobs are paying double just for having SQL. I also noticed Khan Academy has an SQL course. I did a few sections and it looks fairly easy. Is this something that I could learn in a weekend? Or is something a little more time consuming? I was wondering if I spent a weekend taking the Khan course if by next week I could apply to those database jobs requiring SQL...

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SQL is from about the 70s. It's simple as it has few commands, which makes it hard to do complex things.

There are a few things more complicated, but don't trust a "database expert" if you don't have 1000000 records in a table. And f-ing set your indexes.