Week 3 - BALT 4361 - CH 4

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While I have been learning about Structured Query Language (SQL) in one of my other classes this semester, this is my first experience using it. I am glad that Chapter 4 of Discovering Data provides resources to use SQL and see how effective it is at searching through large, structured data. It is one thing to read about SQL, but I could not have given a good definition of what it does until I was able to try it out. Even as I was typing in the prompts provided by the book I was still coming back with syntax errors and other entry problems. To figure out why I was getting these errors, I would put my queries in ChatGPT and ask what I was doing wrong. ChatGPT would then walk me through what I was doing, and I was able to get a better understanding of the SELECT and FROM commands, and why I had to type them out so specifically. 

I attempted the W3Schools SQL exercises and some of the exercises and quizzes on SQLZOO. It took around 30 minutes of my day, and I already have a much better understanding of it. Now, I am by no means an expert; I barely have a grasp on the basics of SQL. It is easy to see the value in having SQL skills. There is more data than ever to sift through and being able to do it effectively will be in demand for the foreseeable future. 



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