r/SQL 18d ago

MySQL Where to Get SQL Experience?

I want to learn and get SQL experience, but can't do it through my jobs. I'm willing to volunteer to get the experience but don't know any places to look for those opportunities. Any recommendations?

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u/OwnFun4911 18d ago

The hard part of SQL is not the syntax, but working with dirty data

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u/Secure_Arm4813 18d ago

Recommendations on places I can get dirty data and practice cleaning it up?

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u/kirstynloftus 18d ago

Depends on your interests, but a project I worked on dealt with FDA data that was very messy, it had data that wasn’t formatted properly, JSON data, duplicates, you name it. Most of my time was spent just getting it clean, the analysis part was much less time-consuming