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.
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Computer and IT literacy. Curiosity about how data is managed.
Approx. 19 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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Beginner Level
Computer and IT literacy. Curiosity about how data is managed.
Approx. 19 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: English
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IBM Skills Network
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
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.
4 hours to complete
13 videos (Total 72 min), 3 readings, 5 quizzes
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
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
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 JASep 22, 2022
Very good however some parts need updating where the various portals have cahnged.
by RGAug 16, 2022
Final quiz was hard, took several attempts to score 100%, but it was good practice!
by OCJun 7, 2022
The course is amazing, challenging, educating and interesting.
by DPSep 28, 2021
Really great and gives a foundation of relational databases.
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