Can SQL Be Learned By Using AI?
Should you approach teaching yourself SQL, or hiring a SQL-focused course, by using artificial intelligence?
Can AI help you learn SQL? I decided to find out and the answer is yes, definitely. When you start learning a new skill or tool it can often feel overwhelming and clunky. You need guidance and understanding of how it works to improve your skills. That’s why we look for guides and tutorials to show us the way. So why not use AI as a tool for learning SQL?
An overview of SQL
The SQL, pronounced as either “sequel” or “ess-que-el,” is a request language for managing and manipulating data at server side. SQL is also one of the most essential and widely-used programming languages in the world. Therefore, knowing SQL will help engineers and non-engineers to work better.
SQL has a simple grammar, but an endless vocabulary. Every database has a slightly different vocabulary, and a different way of treating things that aren’t numbers. If you learned SQL for one database, you probably wouldn’t learn it for another.
The SQL standard does not try to cover every detail. It just defines a few basic types of thing, and lets you learn the rest by experimenting. But that means you have to learn by experiment, and that makes learning by experiment really, really hard.
How AI can help you learn SQL
The idea that AI can help people learn SQL is a relatively new one, but the basic idea of teaching computers to describe things by example has been around for a long time.
Learning SQL with AI is a bit like learning physics with AI. You learn the concepts, and the computer helps you solve the harder problems. The more you work, the more you learn, and the better the AI gets at predicting what you’ll do next.
Learning SQL with AI gives you a head start. The things the computer can do for you are things you can’t do for yourself.
AI can help you learn SQL more quickly because it can provide you with a highly personalized learning experience based on your actual skill level.
In the meantime, I wanted to mention how an AI program can help you learn SQL. A program called AI2sql (#5 Product of the day on Product Hunt) helps you learn SQL, powered by OpenAI Codex.
AI2sql takes a job you don’t know how to do — say, writing a query to find sales by region — and gives you hints and exercises to help you learn. AI2sql lets you create complex SQL statements with minimum effort. It gives you the power of writing queries without remembering all the syntax.
You don’t need to know how to code to make SQL queries. AI2sql is an online tool that aims to make things easier for non-coders to work with SQL directly from your browser.
Non-engineers are now able to create data mining AI2sql with ease!
If you’re familiar with no-code development platforms, there is now an AI2sql that can make it easier for non-engineers and no-coding developers to create SQL in seconds.
Writing boring SQL queries is a waste of our precious lives. Instead of being so busy doing what we do best − writing great content − we’re (frequently) spending hours doing the tasks that are already handled by computer programs. Now that AI is getting better at handling these tedious tasks, it’s time for us to step up and write the next level of queries. It’s time to switch gears − there simply aren’t enough hours in the day (or week, or month) for us to handle what needs to be done.
