Start Dates: TBC
Duration: 1 Day
Full Fee: €600
Network Members Fee: €400
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Programme overview
Course is aimed at people looking to move into a database professional role or whose job role is expanding to encompass database elements. The course describes fundamental database concepts including database types, database languages, and database design
Learning outcomes:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe key database concepts in the context of SQL Server 2016
- Describe database languages used in SQL Server 2016
- Describe data modelling techniques
- Describe normalization and de-normalization techniques
- Describe relationship types and effects in database design
- Describe the effects of database design on performance
• Describe commonly used database objects
Who is the course for?
The primary audience for this course is people who are moving into a database role, or whose role has expanded to include database technologies.
Course Content:
1 – Introduction to databases
Introduction to relational databases
Other types of database
Data analysis
Database languages
Lab: Querying SQ Server
2 – Data Modelling
Data modelling
ANSI/SPARC database model
Entity relationship modelling
Lab: Entity relationship modelling
3 – Normalization
Why normalize data?
Normalization terms
Levels of normalization
De-normalization
Lab: Normalizing raw data
4 – Relationships
Schema mapping
Referential integrity
Lab: Designing relationships
5 – Performance
Indexing
Query performance
Concurrency
Lab: Query performance
6 – Database Objects
Tables
Views
Stored Procedures, Triggers and Functions
Lab: Using SQL Server
