SQL Data Filtering: A Guide to Using the WHERE and ORDER BY Statements

Enhance Your Data Analysis Skills with Advanced SQL Filtering and Ordering Techniques

In the previous articles (1st, 2nd, and 3rd) of this series on Structured Query Language (SQL), we successfully created our tables, inserted data into them, and learned everything about the SELECT statement to select data from our tables.. This article will explore how to extract data using the SELECT statement in conjunction with WHERE statement to filter the data from these tables. Filtering data using SQL is one of the most important things we do as data professionals whether it for analysis or building pipelines

Note: All the code for this article series is available on my github here

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Recap (Table Structure):

In the previous articles, we successfully set up our SQL environment and created two tables: YoutubeChannel and ChannelStats. The YoutubeChannel table includes columns for ChannelID, ChannelName, and DateCreated, while the ChannelStats table features columns for ChannelID, SubscribersCount, TotalViews, and Date.

The Importance of Filtering Data