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SQL

The standard language for querying and managing data held in relational databases.

SQL, Structured Query Language, is how you ask a relational database questions: selecting, filtering, joining and aggregating data across tables. It is the most common way analysts pull the numbers they need.

For finance professionals it is a core skill, because most of the data that matters, transactions, positions and customers, lives in databases you reach with SQL.

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