Category: Tutorials
You are in the right place if you want a lesson you can follow, not a glossary and not a product homepage. This shelf holds most of the articles on Analytics Made Simple. Two paths sit inside it on purpose. SQL is the database path: you have rows, and you need to ask a question without exporting another spreadsheet. AI is the tool path: chat products, open-weight models, and the jobs those tools are actually good at. Other tutorials land here when they teach a skill that does not belong on a narrower shelf.
A category page is the pile. A series page is the path, with a place to start and an order. If you open a tag or page 2 of this list, you are in a filing cabinet. The lesson is the article, or the series hub that lines the articles up.
Where to start: if the pain is a table, open the SQL series and use the first part on that page. If the pain is a model name or a chat tool, open the AI category and pick the product you already have on screen. If you are not sure which job you have, open Learn and choose the track that matches the work, not the logo.
SQL Tutorial 13: Strategies for Maintenance and Optimization
Keep databases healthy over time with backups you can restore, slow query awareness, stats and vacuum concepts, access grants, and on-call hygiene. Close the SQL series with a…
SQL Tutorial 12: Best Practices and Optimization
Write cleaner and faster SQL with an EXPLAIN mindset, tight select lists, sargable filters, and index awareness on real customer and order patterns. Learn practical optimization habits without…
SQL Tutorial 11: Stored Procedures, Triggers, and User-Defined Functions
Understand stored procedures, triggers, and user-defined functions as database objects you may inherit at work. Learn when analysts should care, when SQL scripts or dbt-style models fit better,…
SQL Tutorial 10: Advanced SQL Techniques
Level up multi-step SQL with CTEs for readable named steps, window functions like ROW_NUMBER and running sums on detail rows, and a small conceptual recursive example you can…
SQL Tutorial 9: Views and Indexes
Reuse logic with views and speed lookups with indexes on everyday customer and order queries. Learn what each database object is for, how teams share meaning safely, and…




