This course assumes you have a solid understanding of how to

1. connect to your database,
2. how to use your tool of choice to submit queries to the database, and
3. the basics of the SQL language.

You should take this course if you're being presented with the challenge of working with a database to create

1. reports,
2. spreadsheets, or
3. other types of documents

that will need information to be retrieved from the database.
Perhaps the most important prerequisites are that you have worked with SQL before and are willing to experiment with it over the duration of this course.

One of the prerequisites to this course is a solid understanding of the basics of SQL.
If you need to brush up on your basic SQL skills, then visit Intro to SQL Part I.

This course is designed for the Linux, Windows, and Macintosh platforms.
Furthermore, the database you are using should be SQL-compliant.
The screen shots are from the Windows2000 platform.