SQL and Power BI for fintech: a beginner's roadmap

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The three stages

Stage 1: tidy records in a spreadsheet — dates, amounts, categories.

Stage 2: SQL to answer questions such as total sales per week.

Stage 3: a dashboard that shows those answers at a glance.

  • Clean data first
  • One question per query
  • One dashboard as proof

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