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SQL looks simple until joins and NULLs bite you. The productive order is query first — SELECT, filtering, then joins across tables — before the deeper half most people skip: how to design normalized schemas and why indexes make queries fast or slow. Learn to read data, then to structure it, then to reason about performance and transactions.

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