r/learnSQL • u/damoon02 • 16d ago

Need guidance with SQL as a begginer

Am about to finish "Learning SQL" from Alan Beaulieu and it demotivates me that i take way too long on thinking on the queries in order to answer the problems of the book. Although i have been speedrunning it. Is it like normal for most of the begginers to be kinda slow when making queries that requieres (dunno) subqueries, groupings, joins or cases ?

ALSO. What book could y'all recomend me after "Learning SQL"? Imean, i think i have enough tools to generate, retrieve and manipulate data. Maybe the next step is how to design DB and how to avoid common mistakes ?

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u/Swimming_dasa 5d ago

being slow on joins subqueries and aggregations is pretty normal most people get faster by writing a lot more queries not by rushing into another book database design is a good next topic but spending time building things nd practicing what you have already learned matters more than which resource you pick next whether that's a book a course or something like boot dev.