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Are you ready to dive into the world of data engineering? You’ll need a solid understanding of how data is stored, processed, and accessed. You’ll need to identify the different types of database that are appropriate for the kind of data you are working with and what processing the data requires.
In this course, you will learn the essential concepts behind relational databases and Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). You’ll study relational data models and discover how they are created and what benefits they bring, and how you can apply them to your own data. You’ll be introduced to several industry standard relational databases, including IBM DB2, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

This course incorporates hands-on, practical exercises to help you demonstrate your learning. You will work with real databases and explore real-world datasets. You will create database instances and populate them with tables. 

No prior knowledge of databases or programming is required.

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Computer and IT literacy. Curiosity about how data is managed.

Approx. 18 hours to complete

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What you will learn

Describe data, databases, relational databases, and cloud databases.
Describe information and data models, relational databases, and relational model concepts (including schemas and tables).
Explain an Entity Relationship Diagram and design a relational database for a specific use case.
Implement different relational model constraints.

Skills you will gain

Database (DB) Design
Database Architecture
Postgresql
MySQL
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)

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Includes hands on learning projects.

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Computer and IT literacy. Curiosity about how data is managed.

Approx. 18 hours to complete

English

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week1

Week 1

4 hours to complete

Relational Database Concepts

A relational database organizes data into tables that can be linked—or related—based on data common to each. By storing your business data in a relational database, you can retrieve and analyze the data to make important business decisions.

There are many companies that offer relational database systems and, regardless of which one you use, they all share a common set of characteristics that you must be familiar with before you can move on to more advanced operations with databases. In this module, you will learn some basic relational database concepts and how to diagram and describe the relationships between tables in a database. You will also learn the different deployment topologies and architectures that are commonly used, who the typical users of databases are, and some of the features and benefits of some common relational database management systems including Db2, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

4 hours to complete

13 videos (Total 72 min), 3 readings, 5 quizzes

13 videos

Review of Data Fundamentals 5mInformation and Data Models5mERDs & Types of Relationship4mMapping Entities to Tables2mData Types6mRelational Model Concepts2mDatabase Architecture6mDistributed Architecture and Clustered Databases4mDatabase Usage Patterns6mIntroduction to Relational Database Offerings7mDb210mMySQL5mPostgreSQL4m

3 readings

Course Introduction10mSummary & Highlights 5mSummary & Highlights10m

4 practice exercises

Practice Quiz: Fundamental Relational Database Concepts10mGraded Quiz: Fundamental Relational Database Concepts15mPractice Quiz: Introducing Relational Database Products10mGraded Quiz: Introducing Relational Database Products15m

Week2

Week 2

5 hours to complete

Using Relational Databases

In this module, you will learn how to use a RDBMS GUI or web interface and SQL statements to create and manage the tables in a relational database and populate them with data. You will also learn how to employ some database design techniques that help improve the integrity of your data and the performance of your queries, including the use of Primary and Foreign keys to define relationships, indexes, normalization, and relational model constraints.

5 hours to complete

11 videos (Total 55 min), 2 readings, 6 quizzes

11 videos

Types of SQL statements (DDL vs. DML)2mCreating Tables4mCREATE TABLE Statement4mALTER, DROP, and Truncate tables4mData Movement Utilities7mLoading Data4mDatabase Objects & Hierarchy (Including Schemas)8mPrimary Keys and Foreign Keys3mOverview of Indexes3mNormalization7mRelational Model Constraints - Advanced5m

2 readings

Summary & Highlights10mSummary & Highlights 5m

4 practice exercises

Practice Quiz: Creating Tables and Loading Data10mGraded Quiz: Creating Tables and Loading Data15mPractice Quiz: Designing Keys, Indexes, and Constraints10mGraded Quiz: Designing Keys, Indexes, and Constraints15m

Week3

Week 3

4 hours to complete

MySQL and PostgreSQL

MySQL and PostreSQL are two common RDBMS tools for creating and managing relational databases. Both are free and open-source, have download/install and cloud versions, and offer both command-line and desktop and/or web interface options. In this module, you will learn the basics of creating databases and tables, defining keys and constraints in tables, and loading a database with data using MySQL and PostgreSQL. You will also learn how to define views in PostgreSQL to limit access to sensitive data and simplify data retrieval.

4 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 31 min), 2 readings, 10 quizzes

7 videos

Getting Started with MySQL4mCreating Databases and Tables in MySQL3mLoading Data in MySQL5mUsing Keys and Constraints in MySQL4mGetting Started with PostgreSQL5mCreating Databases and Loading Data in PostgreSQL5mViews3m

2 readings

Summary & Highlights10mSummary & Highlights10m

4 practice exercises

Practice Quiz: MySQL10mGraded Quiz: MySQL15mPractice Quiz: PostgreSQL10mGraded Quiz: PostgreSQL15m

Week4

Week 4

6 hours to complete

Course Assignment

This module contains the final project for this course. You will consolidate the skills that you learned throughout this course by applying them to a specific scenario. To complete the project successfully, you must demonstrate that you have the skills to design a database from a new set of data, including creating an ERD to identify entities, attributes, and relationships. You will normalize tables, create your database, and load some data. You will also demonstrate some database management tasks by working with views.

6 hours to complete

1 video (Total 8 min), 2 readings, 6 quizzes

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TOP REVIEWS FROM INTRODUCTION TO RELATIONAL DATABASES (RDBMS)

by DPSep 28, 2021

Really great and gives a foundation of relational databases.

by RGAug 16, 2022

Final quiz was hard, took several attempts to score 100%, but it was good practice!

by JASep 22, 2022

Very good however some parts need updating where the various portals have cahnged.

by AJan 27, 2023

Very beneficial course with real practical. I can't really thank the instructors team enough. I so much appreciate the opportunity given to me

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Introduction to Relational Databases (RDBMS)

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Instructors

Rav Ahuja

Sandip Saha Joy

Lin Joyner

Rose Malcolm

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Relational Database Concepts

Using Relational Databases

MySQL and PostgreSQL

Course Assignment

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Rav Ahuja

Sandip Saha Joy

Lin Joyner

Rose Malcolm

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IBM Skills Network

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Relational Database Concepts

Using Relational Databases

MySQL and PostgreSQL

Course Assignment

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