SQL Complete Roadmap – 2025

1. SQL and Database Introduction

2. Important keys

Primary , Foreign, Secondary

3. SQL Basic

  • SELECT and FROM , Alias
  • LIMIT
  • WHERE
  • COMPARISON Operators
  • SQL Logical Operator
  • LIKE
  • IN
  • BETWEEN
  • IS NULL
  • AND , OR , NOT
  • ORDER BY

4. SQL Intermediate

  • SQL Aggregate function
  • COUNT
  • SUM
  • MIN , MAX
  • AVG
  • GROUP BY
  • HAVING
  • CASE
  • DISTINCT
  • JOINS – INNER , OUTER , LEFT, RIGHT
  • SQL JOINS USING WHERE or ON
  • FULL OUTER JOIN
  • UNION
  • SQL JOINS WITH COMPARISON OPERATORS
  • SQL JOINS ON MULTIPLE KEYS
  • SQL SELF JOIN

5. SQL Advance

  • SQL Data Types – String , DateTime, Number, Boolean, Float
  • Date Format
  • String Functions to clean data
  • LEFT, RIGHT, LENGTH
  • TRIM
  • POSITION and STRPOS
  • SUBSTR 
  • CONCAT
  • CHANGING CASE WITH UPPER AND LOWER
  • TURNING STRINGS INTO DATES
  • TURNING DATES INTO MORE USEFUL DATES
  • SUBQUERIES
  • PIVOTING DATA IN SQL
  • Common Table Expression – CTE

6. Window Functions

  • What are Window Functions
  • Window Functions vs Aggregate Function 
  • Common Window Functions
  • ROW_NUMBER()
  • RANK()
  • DENSE_RANK()
  • Aggregate Functions – Sum, AVG, MIN, MAX, COUNT
  • NTILE()
  • LEAD and LAG
  • FIRST_VALUE()
  • LAST_VALUE()
  • ROW and Range

7. SQL – Practice

In order to be a master in SQL you will have to practice different type of questions. Below are some if the resource which can help you in this

8. Analytics using SQL

  • CASE STUDIES
  • PRACTICAL QUESTIONS

9. SQL Query Optimization and Performance tuning

10. Interview Questions