In my soon to be Part 1 of this series I walk through the basics of SQL and even venture a bit into intermediate territory.  However this discussion is geared specifically at ACCESSING data AKA the R of our CRUD actions.  This is fine for those who are primarily focused on retrieving data from a database to be used for some purpose (e.g Economics, Stats, Math, Marketing and Finance denizens).  While this subset of SQL skills is well suited for this target audience it makes it difficult to "play on your own" – writing SQL queries and reviewing the results.  This experimentation is super important for gaining experience and comfort with SQL so I'm taking some time here to show this group a way to get started writing SQL queries.

More after the jump.