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Welcome again everyone,  Today we are gonna touch the upper surface of usage of SQL in data analysis.  SQL Stands for Structured Queries Language. It is language which we use to talk with database. Each line of code is called query.  It is like talking to someone in his/her regional language and asking for some work to done.  We request database to do a work for us in database language (SQL) and take the outcome.  Cool so this was the concept of SQL.  Now how we use it.  It has very less syntex and spaces don't matter in SQL Let's see a small query SELECT *  FROM database.dataset.table WHERE  Attribute = "varchar" In this query we are using * for selecting all the columns. In FROM we selected table WHERE give a condition to see table. There are a lot of different functions in SQL, following are few common functions- - SELECT -WHERE -SELECT -ORDER BY -CAST -DISTINCT  -COUNT  -LIMIT There is also concept of subqueries, whi...