Best SQL course: 10 compared in 2026

Best for beginners who want to analyze data quickly. Maven Analytics casts you as the new owner of a DVD rental shop and teaches SQL in MySQL Workbench: database fundamentals, querying single tables, then joins across multiple tables, with a mid-course and a final project.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 10,700 reviews and more than 60,000 students. It runs about four and a half hours, the shortest course here, with four quizzes and an ebook, and was updated in June 2026.

Best for learners who want the most complete Oracle SQL path. It covers database concepts, installing Oracle Database including 23ai, sample schemas and database objects through to privileges and roles and flashback technologies, with hundreds of code examples and three certification exam samples with 225+ questions for 1Z0-071.

It has 4.5 stars from more than 25,000 reviews and more than 122,000 students. At about 36 hours it is the longest course here, with 43 quizzes, a practice test and 177 resources, and was updated in September 2026. We lowered it slightly for its Oracle exam focus.

Best for visual learners who want job-ready projects. Using 200+ animations, it covers querying, DDL and DML, filtering, joins and set operations, row-level functions, aggregation and window functions, subqueries, CTEs, views, procedures and triggers, indexes and partitions, and using ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot with SQL, with projects including a data warehouse.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 12,000 reviews and more than 64,000 students. It runs about 30 hours with six quizzes and was updated in October 2026. It mainly uses SQL Server.

Best for learners who want a daily plan. Designed around one hour a day for 15 days, it uses PostgreSQL and realistic data to cover GROUP BY, joins, functions, unions, data manipulation and definition, views, window functions, grouping sets, rollups, transactions, subqueries, query optimization and indexes, with two course projects.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 18,000 reviews and more than 111,000 students. It runs about 14 and a half hours with 28 quizzes and was updated in October 2026.

Best for complete beginners who want a popular, hands-on MySQL course. Rebuilt with over 325 new videos, it covers SQL syntax, reports from sales and user data, aggregate functions, logical and string functions, joins, large datasets, schema design, dates and times, cloning a photo-sharing app's database, window functions and views.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 109,000 reviews and more than 530,000 students, the most reviewed course here. It runs about 17 hours with exercises, challenges and projects, and was updated in July 2026.

Best for developers who need to design and run a real database. It covers SQL commands, foreign keys and relationships, PostgreSQL data types, aggregation, sets, subqueries, schema design patterns, validation, designs for likes, follows and tags, indexes and how they work internally, recursive CTEs and transactions, working with millions of records.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 13,000 reviews and more than 91,000 students. It runs about 22 hours with 44 quizzes and was updated in February 2026.

Best for aspiring data analysts who want SQL in a weekend. Abhishek and Pukhraj cover basics through advanced SQL statements in PostgreSQL and MySQL, business case studies, practice labs, performance tuning and interview tips, with a practice sheet for every lecture.

It has 4.5 stars from more than 14,000 reviews and more than 430,000 students. It runs about 10 hours with 67 quizzes, a practice test and 82 resources, and was updated in September 2026.

Best for beginners who want an Oracle SQL certification. It covers Oracle database basics, the workspace and sample data, SELECT and WHERE queries, operators and filtering and more, with practice in an Oracle environment, preparation for the Oracle Database SQL 1Z0-071 exam, source code on GitHub and a sales data assignment.

It has 4.6 stars from more than 55,000 reviews and more than 219,000 students. It runs about 17 hours with 60 quizzes, two practice tests and 55 coding exercises, and was updated in February 2026. We lowered it slightly for its Oracle exam focus.

Best for beginners who learn by solving puzzles. It covers databases and installing PostgreSQL, creating tables, SELECT, WHERE, filtering operators, ORDER BY, LIMIT, DISTINCT, functions, GROUP BY and HAVING, and aggregation queries, with 100+ puzzles and 55 coding exercises in a built-in SQL editor.

It has 4.7 stars from more than 15,000 reviews and more than 65,000 students. It runs about nine hours with 57 quizzes and was last updated in November 2025.