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Our notes on LearnSQL.com

We wrote these notes when we read the LearnSQL.com site for our SQL comparisons. For each note, you see the day of our check and a link to the page that we read.

We give the label "Product's own words" to a note that holds only what LearnSQL.com says about its own product.

LearnSQL.com price and plans

  • Lifetime access to the SQL from A to Z track is $273. Lifetime access to all 82 courses is $149, marked down from $599. Checked November 1, 2026 (source)
  • Lifetime access to the SQL for Data Analysis track is $156. Lifetime access to all 82 courses is $149, marked down from $599. Checked November 1, 2026 (source)

LearnSQL.com free use

  • You can do the free section of every course. For the full track, you pay. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • On the track page, LearnSQL.com shows "Free trial: Yes". In each course outline that we read, the first two chapters are free. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)

LearnSQL.com account

  • You sign up with your name and email address. You need no credit card. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)

LearnSQL.com query check and help

  • LearnSQL.com says that it runs your code, checks your solution and gives you real-time feedback. Product's own words Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • LearnSQL.com says that with every course, you get "student2student support, mentor2student support, and technical support". Product's own words Checked October 15, 2026 (source)

LearnSQL.com SQL topics

  • In the track, you learn JOINs, GROUP BY, aggregation and subqueries. You also take the courses "Window Functions", "Recursive Queries" and "GROUP BY Extensions in SQL". Checked October 16, 2026 (source)
  • In SQL Basics, you learn INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN, RIGHT JOIN and FULL OUTER JOIN, and simple reports with GROUP BY. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • In SQL Basics, you learn to look for NULL and NOT NULL values. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • We found no lesson on date functions in the four courses. In Window Functions, LearnSQL.com names "Investigate trends across time" and running totals, and you practice day-to-day deltas. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • In Creating Basic SQL Reports, LearnSQL.com names the skill "Use common table expressions (CTEs)". Checked October 15, 2026 (source)

LearnSQL.com SQL engines

  • On the track page, LearnSQL.com names no database engine. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • We found no database engine on the track page. LearnSQL.com says that you can use the Creating Basic SQL Reports course with PostgreSQL, MySQL (8.0 and higher), Oracle, SQL Server and SQLite. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)

LearnSQL.com content and size

  • LearnSQL.com says: "It's a one-time charge", with "no subscription and no additional fees". Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • Seven courses with 884 coding challenges, about 91 hours. Checked October 16, 2026 (source)
  • LearnSQL.com sells a PostgreSQL version, "SQL from A to Z in PostgreSQL": 9 courses, lifetime access for $351. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • We found no project or capstone on the track page. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • Four courses, about 48 hours. LearnSQL.com lists 129 coding challenges in SQL Basics and 218 in Window Functions. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • In Creating Basic SQL Reports, the third chapter is "Classifying Data with CASE WHEN and GROUP BY". We found no lesson on string or type functions in the four courses. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • In SQL Basics, you learn subqueries, correlated subqueries, and subqueries in FROM and SELECT. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • In Creating Basic SQL Reports, you write reports on the Northwind database, with employees, customers, products, suppliers and orders. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • We found no project in the track. For practice after the track, LearnSQL.com names Revenue Trend Analysis in SQL and Customer Behavior Analysis in SQL. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)

LearnSQL.com certificate

  • On the track page, LearnSQL.com shows "Certificate of completion: Yes". Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • LearnSQL.com says that the SQL Assessment is "completely free". Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • First, you make a free account. LearnSQL.com says that you need less than a minute for this. Checked October 20, 2026 (source)
  • The SQL Assessment is an online test with 18 hands-on tasks in six competency areas. You need a score of at least 70%. Product's own words Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • In the competency areas, LearnSQL.com names JOINs, GROUP BY and HAVING, subqueries and correlated subqueries, window functions, CTEs, and recursive queries. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • You download a PDF or share the certificate on LinkedIn. LearnSQL.com says that it keeps a record of every certificate. LearnSQL.com also says that "the authenticity of your certificate may be verified at any time". We found no public verification page. In a web search, we found no Certificate of Competency that we could open. Checked October 17, 2026 (source)
  • We found no time limit and no named SQL engine on the public assessment pages. You log in before you start the assessment. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • You prove your skill in a free test of 18 hands-on SQL tasks, up to window functions and recursive queries. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • The certificate is for the test only, not for a course, and we found no public verification page. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • In the list of pages that LearnSQL.com gives search engines, LearnSQL.com gives the certificate page the date October 18, 2026. This is the day that we read that list, and LearnSQL.com gives 36 of the 118 pages in the list the same date. On the certificate page, we found no date, and LearnSQL.com gives search engines no change date in the page. In the footer, LearnSQL.com shows only a copyright year. Checked October 18, 2026 (source)
  • LearnSQL.com offers the Certificate of Competency in SQL on its certificate page. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • We found no statement on expiration on the certificate page. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • On the track page, LearnSQL.com shows "Certificate of completion: Yes". LearnSQL.com says that you earn a certificate when you complete each course. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)

LearnSQL.com updates

  • In the list of pages that LearnSQL.com gives search engines, LearnSQL.com gives a different change date to each course page. For the seven courses of the track, the newest date is October 29, 2025 (Recursive Queries), and the oldest is October 22, 2024. None of these dates is the day that we read that list. LearnSQL.com gives the track page the day that we read the list, as it does 36 of the 118 pages in the list, so we do not count it. On the track page and the seven course pages, we found no dated change. In the footer, LearnSQL.com shows "Copyright ©2016-2026 Vertabelo SA", and the other dates are the dates of learner reviews. Checked October 18, 2026 (source)

LearnSQL.com strengths and limits

  • You pay one time and keep the track for life, and you do 884 coding challenges, up to window functions and recursive queries. Checked October 16, 2026 (source)
  • We found no project or capstone in the track, and you pay for the full track after the free section of each course. Checked October 17, 2026 (source)
  • You pay one time and keep the track for life, and you write business reports on the Northwind database, up to CTEs and window functions. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)
  • We found no lessons on date or string functions and no project in the track. One of the four courses is on INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE. Checked October 15, 2026 (source)

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