Sadly, this is the most confusing and error riddled course among all of the courses on coursera.

Really not impressed with this one, find the labs very confusing and the guide notes very poor.

Awful course, with very hard to understand assignments and instructions. Would NOT recommend.

The IBM Watson Cloud needed for the assessment does not work and I can't use the console.

Boring course. Not application based. No learning by doing.

Boring and monoton lectures.

The resources needed to complete this course are not working. Support is very poor.

simply the instructions for the final task do not work. very poorly designed course

No help from instructors, not sufficient learning tools for those new to SQL.

terribly conducted course. 0 help and support for the programming. horrible.

Labs on IBM Cloud are not working, it's not a course it's a bad joke!!!

No response to any queries in the discussion forum. Unable to proceed .

Бесполнезно. Всё равно что прочитать оглавление к документации по SQL.

Terribly poor designed course. Video content very dissatisfied.

Very buggy course for it to be enjoyable. Not exactly worth it

Instructions regarding peer-graded assignments are not clear.

I had extremely bad experience with IBM db2. Do not recommend

the theory is very complex and difficult to understand.

Rubbish, I don't even understand why its rating is 4.7.

Several labs could not load

Returned bad gateway error

I cant get my certificate even after completing it.

Does not grant you a certificate at the end.

Tragic

I actually liked this course. It introduces you to all the basic SQL commands (select, aggregate functions (min, max, sum, avg), joins etc). The labs enable you to create tables in the DB2 database (=the IBM database) and query them from a Jupyter Notebook. I have my own Jupyter Notebook installed , however, you can run and practice queries on the IBM environment as well. Then I liked that in the final assignment in week 5, the last problem 7 was a bit challenging ( I spent some 2 hours on this problem alone! searching the internet and the course forum. As a result, I did memorise how the INNER JOIN command works!!). The rest of the problems really had the same simple commands as in the labs. Finally, I received a helpful response from Rav Ahuja, the tutor of this course, the following day after I posted my question. I liked that rather than giving me a ready command, he pointed me to a general solution to this problem (in case I encounter the same problem again). Overall, I'm impressed with this course.

Hint: please save your log in credentials and the link to Dashboard-IBM Cloud from Lab1/week 1, you'll need to use them many times in other labs and the final assignment!

I really enjoyed this course! I saw negative reviews, but I still decided to pass it. I was attracted to this course by the fact that here, in modules 4 and 5, a bundle of Python and SQL was studied. I am 100% satisfied. I really liked the presentation of the material on SQL, and also liked the real experience of interacting with a database in the cloud. Yes, this will be a specific IBM cloud DB2, but after understanding the specifics of working with it, you can switch to the API of another database and another system.

The passage was not without technical difficulties, but I would warn you about 2 points - when registering for IBM cloud, use the mail domain gmail.com, and 2 - when loading tables in db2, do not pay attention to error messages, but rather check whether the tables were loaded manually. Otherwise, there were no problems.

For me, this was the best sql course I ever took. Although perhaps I liked it also because I already know something about SQL and work with Python, so it really suited me.

Though compact, the course doesn't seem to miss out anything on Databases and SQL as far as a new programmer like me is concerned. The instructor is awesome and so are the videos, readings and labs. Nowhere you would feel that prior experience with programming is a must to assimilate the concepts taught in the course.

Programming is a hurdle for many who aspire to be a Data Scientist. So this course would definitely provide a solid ground to people new to programming but gritty enough to be a Data Scientist and would help them in realizing their dream. The course is well desined, and specially well taught and the team would have really broken a sweat to make this course what it is. Loved it!