Introduction

These are introductory Banner/Insights SQL tutorials. They are designed to teach SQL from the ground up using Banner and Insights as a learning platform. If you don't know what Banner or Insights these tutorials might not be for you.

Banner is a student management system created by Ellucian. Ellucian also makes a data warehouse product called Insights designed to work with Banner

These tutorials are intended for someone who doesn't know any SQL and needs to learn how to pull data using SQL from Insights. I will be using examples and table names directly from Insights. This approach should help streamline the learning. We do not need to explore different database management software. We do not need to mock up tutorial data. And, if you have problems with accessing Insights you can rely on your organization's technical support.

The one drawback (if it is a drawback) is we will only be reading data and not how to write records, update records, create tables, or otherwise manage the database. If you are just learning SQL you should not be doing those things anyways.