ROUND() with a negative parameter

A useful thing you can do with ROUND() is have a negative number as the decimal place parameter. This can come in handy if your manager only needs to know the average number of facebook_likes to the hundreds since granularity below one hundred likes won't impact decision making.

Social media plays a significant role in determining success. If a movie trailer is posted and barely gets any likes, the movie itself may not be successful. Remember how 2020's "Sonic the Hedgehog" movie got a revamp after the public saw the trailer?

Let's apply this to other parts of the dataset and see what the benchmark is for movie budgets so, in the future, it's clear whether the film is above or below budget.

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Intermediate SQL

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Calculate the average budget from the films table, aliased as avg_budget_thousands, and round to the nearest thousand.

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-- Calculate the average budget rounded to the thousands
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Intermediate SQL

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In this first chapter, you’ll learn how to query a films database and select the data needed to answer questions about the movies and actors. You'll also understand how SQL code is executed and formatted.

Exercise 1: Querying a database Exercise 2: Learning to COUNT()Exercise 3: Practice with COUNT()Exercise 4: SELECT DISTINCT Exercise 5: Query execution Exercise 6: Order of execution Exercise 7: Debugging errors Exercise 8: SQL style Exercise 9: SQL best practices Exercise 10: Formatting Exercise 11: Non-standard fields

Learn about how you can filter numerical and textual data with SQL. Filtering is an important use for this language. You’ll learn how to use new keywords and operators to help you narrow down your query to get results that meet your desired criteria and gain a better understanding of NULL values and how to handle them.

Exercise 1: Filtering numbers Exercise 2: Filtering results Exercise 3: Using WHERE with numbers Exercise 4: Using WHERE with text Exercise 5: Multiple criteria Exercise 6: Using AND Exercise 7: Using OR Exercise 8: Using BETWEEN Exercise 9: Filtering text Exercise 10: LIKE and NOT LIKE Exercise 11: WHERE IN Exercise 12: Combining filtering and selecting Exercise 13: NULL values Exercise 14: What does NULL mean?Exercise 15: Practice with NULLs

SQL allows you to zoom in and out to better understand an entire dataset, its subsets, and its individual records. You'll learn to summarize data using aggregate functions and perform basic arithmetic calculations inside queries to gain insights into what makes a successful film.

Exercise 1: Summarizing data Exercise 2: Aggregate functions and data types Exercise 3: Practice with aggregate functions Exercise 4: Summarizing subsets Exercise 5: Combining aggregate functions with WHERE Exercise 6: Using ROUND()Exercise 7: ROUND() with a negative parameter

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This final chapter teaches you how to sort and group data. These skills will take your analyses to a new level by helping you uncover critical business insights and identify trends and performance. You'll get hands-on experience to determine which films performed the best and how movie durations and budgets changed over time.

Exercise 1: Sorting results Exercise 2: Sorting text Exercise 3: Sorting single fields Exercise 4: Sorting multiple fields Exercise 5: Grouping data Exercise 6: GROUP BY single fields Exercise 7: GROUP BY multiple fields Exercise 8: Answering business questions Exercise 9: Filtering grouped data Exercise 10: Filter with HAVING Exercise 11: HAVING and sorting Exercise 12: All together now Exercise 13: Congratulations!