Welcome to week 4; SQL and Databases

In the world of security, diversity is important.

Diverse perspectives are often needed to find effective solutions.

This is also true of the tools we use.

Your job will often require you to use a lot of diverse tools.

In the last section, we studied the Linux command line and learned how this tool can help you search and filter through data, navigate through the Linux file system, and authenticate users.

Now, we'll learn about another tool.

In this section, we'll explore SQL and how it allows you to analyze data in a way needed for your role as a security analyst.

We're going to start off by learning about relational databases and how they're structured.

From there, we're going to introduce SQL queries and how to use them to access data from databases.

We then move on to SQL filters, which help us refine our queries to get the exact information we need.

Lastly, we'll explore SQL joins, which allow you to combine tables together.

When I'm presented with a problem or a project at work, I often have to sift through a large amount of data.

When I use SQL, I'm able to review data quickly and provide results with confidence since the queries are

consistent and easily executed.

SQL is a very powerful and flexible tool.

Throughout this section, you'll learn how to use the parts of it you need as a security analyst and gain hands-on experience.

Good luck, and I'll join you for the rest of the course!

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