
Build a complete, real-world data engineering and analytics solution from scratch using SQL Server 2025, SSIS, Python, ChatGPT, and Streamlit — even if you’re starting as a beginner.
In this course, you won’t just learn isolated tools. You will build an end-to-end pipeline the same way modern companies build reporting systems: from environment setup, to ETL, to dimensional modelling, to a working analytics dashboard.
We start by setting up your SQL Server environment properly. You’ll learn how to prepare Windows for installation, understand SQL Server 2025 requirements, install SQL Server, verify your setup, install SSMS, connect successfully, explore database types, and restore databases. This ensures your foundation is solid before you build anything.
Next, you will set up a clean Python development environment on Windows. You’ll install Python, learn what virtual environments are (and why they matter in real projects), create and activate a venv, update pip, install Visual Studio Code, and install the key Python libraries used in data analytics and dashboards.
Then we take it to the next level with an AI-assisted ETL workflow. You’ll create a ChatGPT account and learn how to use AI to generate ETL scripts, speed up development, and reduce errors — while still understanding exactly what the code is doing. You’ll build a staging table and create a working SSIS package to load data into SQL Server.
After that, we cover Dimensional Modelling Fundamentals, including star schema concepts, fact tables, dimension tables, and best practices. You’ll also learn how AI can support dimensional modelling design decisions.
Finally, you’ll build a complete Analytics & BI Dashboard with Python. You’ll write real SQL queries for KPI metrics, engagement levels, channel performance, top customers, and activity trends by day of week. Then you’ll develop a multi-part Streamlit dashboard and run it locally as a working BI application.
By the end of this course, you’ll have a practical portfolio project that demonstrates SQL Server setup, SSIS ETL, data warehouse modelling, AI-assisted development, and Python dashboard delivery.