 Should you learn my SQL SQL in 2024? You reach for that video, let me explain. This video was brought to you by DigiLink Academy. You're number one source to learning programming fast and get to that six-figure salary you desire. Our third day project course includes our JavaScript front-end projects, our Python back-end projects, our SQL database projects and much, much more. So go ahead and click the link below to our free seven-step guide so that you can start reaching your programming goals today. I'll see you guys in the course. All right guys, let's jump right into this guys. The quick answer is yes. There's a lot of value into learning my SQL, but I wanted to get into some of the pushback that you get from this language and also the benefits as well. Traditionally speaking, I'm just gonna say big brother. I know technically it's not, but typically people see my SQL as a secondary option to MS SQL or Oracle or some kind of enterprise level structured query language option. But in actuality as far as market share and usability for a lot of web apps and things like this, my SQL is widespread and even Oracle bought them out so that that perception is dwindling each day. And it's at a point to where now, even in some enterprise applications, they can actually be a very viable and scalable option. But at the end of the day guys, when you are having base projects that's looking just doing basic stuff and then you're not really providing value to the end user as far as just the capability that's there or leveraging any of that capability, that's where the perception kind of start to look down upon my SQL only because you're not really leveraging the possibilities that you got. And we'll go over some of this in the video guys. But before we get started, tell me why you are trying to learn my SQL? Why are you trying to, are you trying to get a job, projects, you're struggling? You're just trying to figure out your roadmap, your plan to be a software developer? Comment below, tell me about your story and I could help you guys out with a start of conversation in the comment section and kind of get started there because I like my SQL. I personally started off with it back in the day. Still use it today a lot of my web apps, especially with single, with smart applications, it's perfect and it is free. I'm gonna be honest with you guys, a lot of that is because of that. But other options are free as well as far as just their bottom tiers. But I feel like with my SQL, you can use that as a long-term solution versus other free software development packages or database packages where they just use that to kind of reel you in and then eventually you have to upgrade because you can't do something like store procedures in their free tier. But my SQL, you get the full package out of the gate for free in most situations. So at the end of the day, you're able to do a lot more and scale out if you know how to leverage it and use scalable code to guys at the end of the day. So let's go over some of the benefits. The good news is even if you start with my SQL, it's so similar to the others, you're gonna be able to dive right into the other ones as well. You got the basic select statement, modify, update, all that stuff, delete, typical, typical, structured, query-language statements guys. So you're covered on that front. And also the amount of projects you can do is endless. A lot of popular softwares, a lot of stuff in C-Panel in most applications, well, C-Panel's on there too, but most applications in C-Panel, you got WordPress, you got Joomla, you got so much different stuff that uses my SQL, it will really give you some exposure to start to build out. But we want you guys to get beyond just the basic stuff. I just did a project video on our front-end development. Go check that out. We go over some front-end development projects. Most, if not all of those options that I talk about in that video uses my SQL as the database source. And you can do a lot with my SQL guys, but at the end of the day, your project's got to reflect value and your project's got to be able to solve problems and be able to do it in a reasonable time in a scalable option as well. The worst thing you could have is a slow my SQL database or an exposed my SQL database. And that's where most of the fear is going to come in as far as just the back-end exposure to the internet, the ability to be hacked only because people just don't have best practices. And a lot of that can be cured by just learning the right things about my SQL, not just the query language and the statements, but how to protect the database as well. That's going to be key too as well. And you don't have to go into a lot of elaborate. Just like anything else guys, just like your house. You can do a few things that'll go along to actually protect your house. I always like to use the 80-20 rule. You can do 20% that'll do 80% of the work to help protect your house and protect your database as well. You know, put lots on the doors, make sure you use multi-factor authentication and login, use a lot of geo access stuff. This is going to really put those necessary layers to kind of put you above the typical security base of a MySQL database. So at the end of the day, MySQL, a lot of the learning is going to be, hey, the interaction between your application. I'm going to say your front-end application versus accessing that back-end database. A lot of guys, I can go over the SQL statements. They got a ton of videos out there about that. We're not going to really hit on that because I know at the end of the day, just Google MySQL statements, you'll get, hey, how to set it up, how to select data out of it. You got sample data, things like that. You can go do a Google on that. But what I want to talk about is the actual impactful stuff that a typical business would actually for as well. Something like, hey, can you add a table for the secondary module that I'm going to be leveraging? You want to be able to go through that. We touch base in that with our 7 Step Guide, guys. Links below to that. We get into different options for MySQL, a lot of project-based stuff that you can put on the resume and also a lot of stuff that's going to allow you to learn and do project-based learning as well in our 7 Step Guide below. And also, if you already got our 7 Step Guide, go check out our 30-day lunchpad course. We got some good deals on that right now. Price is a real increase, so go ahead and take advantage of that today so that we can really put you in a position to win and learn MySQL so that you can get ahead of the competition. But at the end of the day, what I want you guys to understand, what I really want you guys to take away from this video is you're on the right track. You're doing good. And congratulations. You have made it this far to where you actually picked a solution or a programming language. I'm just gonna say language or a form of language or a structure key language that will help you take your career to the next level to help you learn and you can branch off into other programming languages to get that. Now that you've picked the right language, you just gotta make sure you do the projects that's gonna allow you to learn rapidly and also provide value each stage of your career. So right now you're just trying to learn which is you're doing a great job of that as far as learning elements of MySQL. Now it's time to really put those projects together to showcase your value and put you ahead of the competition. Like, subscribe to the content. If you have additional questions, comment below. 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