7 Ways to Practice SQL Online
7 Ways to Practice SQL Online
Practice SQL Online
SQL FIDDLE is a great place to start if you’re looking to, well, fiddle around with SQL. A free site that allows you to test and save queries in several different kinds of SQL, SQL Fiddle is a perfect way to play around with the queries you have learned to date.
Better still, you can easily link to your query samples, allowing others to comment and help with any bumps on the road. If you browse SQL community pages long enough, you’ll see plenty of people linking to SQL Fiddle; it’s a great way to enlist others to help you if you have a problem.
You’ll find it easy to get going in SQL at SQLZOO. This is a free platform that presents SQL in a way that is very friendly to beginners. It’s super intuitive to use and chock-full of tests and tutorials that will help you get hands-on with SQL in a comfortable environment.
It offers practice queries and interactive SQL engines, so don’t overlook SQLZOO for some great steps forward in your SQL learning journey
If you have decided to work with Oracle, then ORACLE LIVESQL is a fantastic place to play around with your newly learned syntax skills. There’s a huge library of samples you can safely tamper with as well as plenty of community input and tutorials. This beginner-friendly site has a simple and intuitive interface that makes it particularly helpful.
Choose the “Start Coding Now” option, and then–if you don’t already have one–create an Oracle Single Sign-On account. With a login, you’ll be able to save all your work on Oracle LiveSQL.
W3RESOURCE.COM is a super handy site, full of web development resources largely targeted at beginners. SQL newcomers can use the site as a comprehensive practice tool, and even those with a few more SQL miles under their belt can keep coming back to it as a reference. With regularly updated content, the makers of W3resource have clearly put in a lot of effort to make this free site a quality one.
For SQL rookies, the best feature of the site is the stacks of exercises, undeniably making this a good place to practice SQL online. From retrieving data, formatting query output, to joins and everything in between, this is a fantastic place to get in some serious practice hours.
Similar to SQL Fiddle, DB-FIDDLE.COM is an online SQL playground for aspiring developers to practice their SQL queries, test code, and share SQL snippets.
If you’re looking to practice what you’ve learned in the LearnSQL.com PRACTICE COURSE, the DB Fiddle “Load Example” feature is a great place to start. The site also makes it easy to collaborate with others, and you can save your work so that you can come back to it later.
Got the practice environments sorted, and a stack of SQL queries under your belt? That’s great! Now you just need data.
There are a million ways to find sample databases to use for practicing SQL (that’s a whole other blog post for another day), but if you’re going to take a look at one, make it DATA.GOV. This site is full to the brim of databases you can use freely and will make you feel like you’re actually dealing with real data about real situations–because you are!
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