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Datbase Essentials

This document provides information on a database management essentials course. The course objectives are to provide foundational database skills for a business intelligence career, teach how to create database tables and queries using SQL, develop entity relationship diagrams, and analyze table designs to eliminate redundancy. The targeted learners are university students, IT professionals, project managers, and business analysts. A prerequisite is a basic understanding of computing concepts but no prior programming experience is required.

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Datbase Essentials

This document provides information on a database management essentials course. The course objectives are to provide foundational database skills for a business intelligence career, teach how to create database tables and queries using SQL, develop entity relationship diagrams, and analyze table designs to eliminate redundancy. The targeted learners are university students, IT professionals, project managers, and business analysts. A prerequisite is a basic understanding of computing concepts but no prior programming experience is required.

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Information Systems Program

Database Management Essentials

Module 1: Course Introduction


Lesson 1: Course Objectives
Lesson Objectives
• Gain context for this course in the specialization
• Understand targeted learners for this course
• Understand broad course objectives and prerequisite
background

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Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence
Course 1 Database management
essentials

Course 2 Data warehouse design and


data integration

Course 3 Relational database support for


data warehouses

Course 4 Business intelligence concepts,


tools, and applications

Course 5 Capstone course with a


comprehensive case study 3

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Targeted Learners

University students IT professionals

Project management Business analysts

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Broad Course Objectives
• Provide a foundation of database management background for a
business intelligence career
• Explain characteristics of databases and features of database
management systems
• Create tables and formulate business queries using SQL
• Create entity relationship diagrams (ERDs) to represent business
requirements
• Convert an ERD to a table design
• Analyze table designs for unwanted redundancy
• Reflect on guidelines and goals for query formulation, redundancy
elimination, and data modeling

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Prerequisite Background
• Not an introductory computing course
• Basic computing concepts and personal
computing applications
• No computer programming but detailed concepts
and skills

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Summary
• Basic course on database management concepts and
skills
• Develop knowledge and skills for query formulation and
database development
• Prerequisite background for other courses in the data
architectures track
• Career opportunities for IT professionals as well as
business and computer science students

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