{"product_id":"sql-for-business-analysts-thom-haagenrud-9798185846049","title":"SQL for Business Analysts: Turn Raw Data into Useful Reports and Insights","description":"\u003cp\u003eDo you have access to business data but struggle to turn it into clear reports, reliable metrics, and useful answers?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSQL for Business Analysts\u003c\/b\u003e is a practical guide to using SQL for reporting, investigation, dashboard preparation, and evidence-based decision-making. Written for aspiring and working analysts, it shows you how to move beyond copied queries and develop a dependable process for answering real business questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book treats SQL as an analytical skill rather than a collection of commands. You will learn how to clarify a request, identify the correct tables, understand what each row represents, select the right fields, define metrics carefully, and check whether your results make business sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will begin with relational data fundamentals and simple retrieval queries before progressing to calculations, joins, summaries, time-based reports, data cleaning, window functions, and dashboard-ready datasets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside this practical guide, you will learn how to: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Translate business requests into clear data questions\u003cbr\u003e- Understand tables, rows, columns, keys, relationships, and business grain\u003cbr\u003e- Retrieve useful records with SELECT and FROM\u003cbr\u003e- Filter customers, orders, products, dates, amounts, and statuses\u003cbr\u003e- Sort, limit, label, and shape report results\u003cbr\u003e- Create calculated fields for revenue, cost, margin, and quantity\u003cbr\u003e- Build categories, flags, and business rules with CASE\u003cbr\u003e- Combine related tables without creating duplicate rows or inflated totals\u003cbr\u003e- Calculate counts, sums, averages, minimums, and maximums\u003cbr\u003e- Create grouped reports with GROUP BY and HAVING\u003cbr\u003e- Build monthly, quarterly, yearly, and rolling-period reports\u003cbr\u003e- Clean inconsistent text, regions, categories, and labels\u003cbr\u003e- Handle NULL values, blank fields, duplicates, and missing information\u003cbr\u003e- Break complicated work into readable subqueries and common table expressions\u003cbr\u003e- Use window functions for rankings, running totals, percentages, and comparisons\u003cbr\u003e- Prepare clean datasets for dashboards and business intelligence tools\u003cbr\u003e- Define one row per business grain for reliable reporting\u003cbr\u003e- Validate row counts, totals, duplicates, boundaries, and metric definitions\u003cbr\u003e- Troubleshoot broken queries and recognize slow-report warning signs\u003cbr\u003e- Document assumptions and communicate findings clearly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the book, realistic scenarios connect SQL directly to professional analysis. You will examine sales performance, customer segments, product results, monthly trends, regional revenue, order activity, and incomplete records.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will also learn why a query that runs successfully may still produce the wrong answer. Practical validation methods will help you catch duplicated rows, incorrect joins, missing records, unsuitable date filters, and misleading totals before they reach a dashboard or management report.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe final chapters show you how to organize a portfolio of business queries, present an insight, document your assumptions, and work more effectively with data teams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is suitable for aspiring business analysts, reporting analysts, operations professionals, finance staff, spreadsheet users, junior data analysts, career changers, and students preparing for analytical roles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou do not need previous database or programming experience. The lessons begin with the foundations and build toward the reporting techniques analysts use in everyday work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStop depending on unexplained exports and fragile spreadsheet processes. Learn how to reach structured data, ask better questions, verify the answers, and produce reports people can trust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thom Haagenrud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798185846049\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Thom Haagenrud","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997893046527,"sku":"9798185846049","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sql-for-business-analysts-thom-haagenrud-9798185846049","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}