15 Best SQL Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 SQL courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $158.00. 11 come from a named university or institution, including Corporate Finance Institute, IBM and Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $49.00 – $158.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to this topic by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $158.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Advanced Tableau - LOD Calculations
Offered by Corporate Finance Institute
This Advanced Tableau course provides next-level training to be able to prep and display data in an efficient way. In this course, you’ll utilize Tableau to break down and solve the types of business problems that BI ana...
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Data Science Fundamentals with Python and SQL
Offered by IBM
Data science is one of the hottest professions of the decade, and the demand for data scientists who can analyze data and communicate results to inform data driven decisions has never been greater. This Specialization fr...
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Java Database Engineering: Spring Boot MVC & SQL Mastery
Offered by Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Master the full stack of database engineering with this comprehensive course that bridges theoretical SQL knowledge with practical Spring Boot MVC application development. Through hands-on projects building a library man...
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Accounting Data Analytics with Python
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This course focuses on developing Python skills for assembling business data. It will cover some of the same material from Introduction to Accounting Data Analytics and Visualization, but in a more general purpose progra...
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Data Management for Analytics Part 2
Offered by Northeastern University
This course will offer you an opportunity to learn the fundamental concepts and emerging technologies in data storage and data governance. It presents a balanced theory-practice focus and covers Structured Query Language...
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Big Data Analytics
Offered by O.P. Jindal Global University
Ready to turn massive, complex datasets into actionable business insights? This advanced Big Data Analytics course is designed for learners with basic SQL, Python programming, and experience using predictive tools who wa...
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Introduction to Data Science
Offered by IBM
Interested in learning more about data science, but don’t know where to start? This 4-course Specialization from IBM will provide you with the key foundational skills any data scientist needs to prepare you for a career...
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Database to AI: Practical Data Analytics Integration
Offered by Northeastern University
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and emerging technologies in database design and modeling, database systems, data storage, and data governance. It presents a balanced theory-practice focus and covers enti...
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Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms
Offered by University of Washington
Data analysis has replaced data acquisition as the bottleneck to evidence-based decision making --- we are drowning in it. Extracting knowledge from large, heterogeneous, and noisy datasets requires not only powerful com...
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Data Engineering Foundations
Offered by IBM
Data engineering is one of the fastest-growing tech occupations, where the demand for skilled data engineers far outweighs the supply. The goal of data engineering is to make quality data available for fact-finding and d...
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Django for Everybody
Offered by University of Michigan
This specialization introduces Python programmers to building websites using the Django library. Across the four courses, you will learn HTML, CSS, SQL, Django, JavaScript, jQuery, and JSON Web Services. During the cours...
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Design and Build a Data Warehouse for Business Intelligence Implementation
Offered by University of Colorado System
The capstone course, Design and Build a Data Warehouse for Business Intelligence Implementation, features a real-world case study that integrates your learning across all courses in the specialization. In response to bus...
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Web Applications for Everybody
Offered by University of Michigan
This Specialization is an introduction to building web applications for anybody who already has a basic understanding of responsive web design with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Web Applications for Everybody is your introd...
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Python, Bash and SQL Essentials for Data Engineering
Offered by Duke University
If you are interested in developing the skills needed to be a data engineer, the Python, Bash and SQL Essentials for Data Engineering Specialization is a great place to start. We live in a world that is driven by big dat...
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How to Use Data
Offered by University of Pennsylvania
“How to Use Data” is designed to equip learners with the essential skills needed for a career in data analytics. This specialization emphasizes the ability to scope and answer critical business questions using data while...
$49.00listed price
Best SQL Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Advanced Tableau - LOD Calculations | Coursera | Corporate Finance Institute | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Data Science Fundamentals with Python and SQL | Coursera | IBM | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Java Database Engineering: Spring Boot MVC & SQL Mastery | Coursera | Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Accounting Data Analytics with Python | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $158.00 | View → |
| 5 | Data Management for Analytics Part 2 | Coursera | Northeastern University | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Big Data Analytics | Coursera | O.P. Jindal Global University | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Introduction to Data Science | Coursera | IBM | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | Database to AI: Practical Data Analytics Integration | Coursera | Northeastern University | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms | Coursera | University of Washington | $79.00 | View → |
| 10 | Data Engineering Foundations | Coursera | IBM | $49.00 | View → |
| 11 | Django for Everybody | Coursera | University of Michigan | $49.00 | View → |
| 12 | Design and Build a Data Warehouse for Business Intelligence Implementa... | Coursera | University of Colorado System | $79.00 | View → |
| 13 | Web Applications for Everybody | Coursera | University of Michigan | $49.00 | View → |
| 14 | Python, Bash and SQL Essentials for Data Engineering | Coursera | Duke University | $49.00 | View → |
| 15 | How to Use Data | Coursera | University of Pennsylvania | $49.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $158.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $109.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 11 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Corporate Finance Institute, IBM and Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.