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You showed up for five days. You ran the queries. You checked the results. You interpreted what the data was telling you. You built something real.
It is not about motivation
It is not about talent
It is not solved by random tutorials
Most people who start learning SQL never get this far. They watch a few lessons. They copy a few queries. Then the first difficult concept shows up, there's no feedback, no real-world context, and they quietly stop.
You didn't. That matters.
But here's the honest part: there's still a gap between where you are now and the SQL skills employers actually pay for.
It comes down to specific skills, learned in the right order, applied to realistic business scenarios, with enough practice to know you can actually use them.
That's the gap Maven Pro is built to close.
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You've started the path. Maven Pro gives you the full version. Five SQL courses. One connected progression. Each course builds on the last, taking you from practical fundamentals to the advanced techniques used in analyst, marketing analytics, and database administration roles.
MySQL Data Analysis
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8
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Beginner
You don't start by memorizing syntax in a vacuum. You step into the role of a new business owner who just acquired Maven Movies, a brick-and-mortar DVD rental shop. From Day 1, you're working with a real scenario, real questions, and real data.
SQL fundamentals: selecting, filtering, sorting, grouping data from real tables
Key database concepts that shape what questions you can answer
JOIN queries that blend data across multiple related tables
The habit of starting with a business question, not a blank query window
Advanced SQL Querying
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14
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Advanced
This is where you move beyond the basics. Most SQL tutorials stop once you understand the Big 6 clauses. Real analyst work does not stop there.
Advanced JOIN types, subqueries, CTEs, and window functions
Numeric, datetime, string, and NULL functions for manipulating real data
Pivoting with CASE statements and calculating running totals
Real-world business problems solved end to end
MySQL Database Administration
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12
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Intermediate
Step into the role of a Database Administration Consultant helping business owners build, maintain, and optimize their databases. These are not abstract exercises — they're the tasks working DBAs handle every day.
Designing efficient, normalized databases from scratch
Creating and editing schemas, tables, and records in MySQL Workbench
Stored procedures, triggers, and indexes
User permissions and access control
Advanced MySQL Database Administration
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13
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Advanced
You take on the role of Lead DBA at a new firm — building an entire database from the ground up, then expanding into the advanced concepts that keep production databases running reliably at scale.
Replication, backup, recovery, and database security
Automation via stored procedures, triggers, and scheduled events
Building and populating tables from scratch, the way it happens in real roles
The infrastructure layer that separates DBAs from analysts who just run queries
Advanced MySQL for Marketing & Web Analytics
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14
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Advanced
This course applies advanced SQL directly to the data problems that show up in marketing, ecommerce, and web analytics roles. Built around a custom database that mirrors real business environments.
Traffic analysis and optimization
Website measurement and A/B testing
Channel mix, product performance, and user behavior analysis
Business concepts first, SQL tools second, with hands-on exercises throughout
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AI will not replace the need to understand data. It raises the bar for what analysts are expected to do with it. Maven Pro includes four courses covering AI, prompt engineering, and critical thinking. Not theory for theory's sake — practical skills you can use the same day you learn them.
Gen AI Essentials
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Beginner
A clear-eyed introduction to how generative AI actually works, what it can and can't do, and how to use it without losing the judgment that makes you valuable.
How LLMs, GPTs, and generative AI work, explained without the jargon
The real risks: bias, ownership, privacy, and fraud
How to develop an AI-first mindset without becoming dependent on outputs
Real-world use cases: code, datasets, research, agents
Prompt Engineering Masterclass
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4
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Beginner
Built around the BRIDGE framework — Background, Request, Input, Deliverable, Guardrails, Evaluation — it gives you a repeatable process for getting accurate, consistent results from AI tools.
How small changes to your prompting strategy produce dramatically different outputs
The BRIDGE framework applied step by step, with templates and checklists
Advanced techniques: chain of thought, branching, XML tagging, multi-shot prompting
Prompt strategies you can apply to your own work from the first session
Critical Thinking in the Age of AI
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Beginner
The course that makes every other AI skill more valuable. AI is fast — but it still relies on humans to ask the right questions, catch flawed reasoning, and turn output into something a stakeholder can actually act on.
Proven frameworks: Socratic Method, Paul-Elder model, and more
How to translate vague requests into testable hypotheses
Spotting confirmation bias, false causation, and logical fallacies AI tends to miss
Communicating findings with enough clarity that stakeholders make decisions
ChatGPT for Data Analytics
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Beginner
Through instructor-led demos across Excel, Google Sheets, Power BI, SQL, and Python, you'll see exactly how ChatGPT fits into work analysts are already doing.
Prompt engineering for analysts: how to get consistent, accurate outputs
Using ChatGPT to explain code, generate formulas, and troubleshoot errors
Optimizing queries, analyzing complex datasets, and automating manual tasks
The common limitations and failure modes to know before you rely on it
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SQL and AI may be where your momentum starts. But modern analysts are rarely judged on one tool alone. Maven Pro gives you access to the full analyst learning stack — so when you're ready to go deeper, switch tools, build dashboards, automate workflows, or expand into ML, the path is already there.
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Excel
From fundamentals to Power Query, pivot tables, and financial modeling.
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Power BI
Building dashboards and reports stakeholders can actually use.
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Tableau
Data visualization and interactive analytics, beginner to advanced.
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Python
Data analysis, automation, scripting with pandas, NumPy, and more.
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Machine Learning
Supervised and unsupervised models, neural networks, real-world ML.
SQL is where this next phase starts. Everything else is ready when you are.
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Most learning platforms give you videos and a completion certificate. Maven Pro is built for people who want to actually build skills, prove them, and turn learning into career-ready work.
Learn at depth
Full access to every course and guided project in the Maven library
Graded benchmark and final assessments — know whether you've actually learned it
Downloadable course projects and PDF resources you keep permanently
Personalized learning plans built around your role and goals
Free practice datasets and prompts to keep building after the course ends
Build a portfolio that proves it
Real-world guided projects with actual deliverables, not just exercises
A public portfolio and profile page that showcases your work
Embeddable, interactive dashboards and notebooks for job applications
Unlimited published portfolio projects — no cap on what you can show
Entry into monthly Maven challenges for live, competitive practice
Get credentials that count
Certified badges and credentials issued on course completion
CPE credit toward continuing professional education and certifications
Credentials tied to graded assessments, not just time spent watching videos
Lifetime access, if you want it
Lifetime platform access that never expires
Unlimited access to all future updates and new courses added to the platform
One payment. Done. No renewals.
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The skills this curriculum teaches are specific, practical, and verifiable.
JOINs
CTEs
Window Functions
Query Performance
AI in the Workflow
Prompt Engineering
Critical Thinking
Portfolio Projecrts
These are the skills that show up in data analyst job descriptions. They come up in technical interviews. They separate the analysts who keep growing from the ones who stay stuck at the same level.
You've already seen the quality of what Maven Analytics builds. You spent five days with it. So the question is not whether the courses are good. You know they are.
The real question is whether now is the right time to keep going.
This course deepened my understanding of SQL and sharpened my skills in data extraction, aggregation, filtering, and working with complex joins, subqueries, and window functions. One of my favorite parts was learning how to perform real-world analysis tasks using structured queries — essential for any data-driven role.
Lawrence Ererobe, Maven Pro student
The skills you need are not going away. Neither are the other analysts building them right now. If SQL and AI are part of where you're heading, the best time to close the gap is when you already have momentum. You have it right now.
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"I'm not sure this is worth it at my level."
Fair question. But look at what you already did this week.
You ran real queries against a real database. You caught patterns. You interpreted results. You turned raw data into a business story.
Depending on where you started, you did things this week that many self-taught SQL learners never actually do.
So no, the gap between here and the SQL skills employers pay for is not a talent gap. It is a coverage gap.
Specific topics. In the right order. Applied to real business scenarios. With graded assessments and portfolio projects that prove you can do the work.
That's what Maven's SQL and AI courses are built to close. Not in theory. In practice.
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You signed up. You showed up for five days. You ran real queries, worked with real data, and built something you could walk into a meeting with.
That is not nothing. Most people who say they're going to learn SQL never make it this far.
The analysts who close the skill gap are the ones who keep going when they have momentum. You have it right now.
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