Relational Database Design: A Practical Approach

Relational Database Design: A Practical Approach

Course length: 1 day (6 Hours)

Course description

Overview: Students will learn the general principles involved in designing a database that complies with the relational database model.

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we strongly recommend some familiarity with data tables and basic knowledge of how to create queries in Access 97 or Access 2000. The Software Training classes, Access 97: Introduction and Access 2000: Introduction are designed to teach these basic fundamentals.

Delivery method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on and minds-on activities.

Benefits: Students will learn how to correctly design tables for use in a relational database application.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should have a need to design or modify the design of tables to be used in a relational database management system.

Performance-based objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

· Be conversant with the terminology used in reference to relational databases and be familiar with the design process.

· Identify data as fields, group fields into tables, select key fields, and identify table relationships.

· Identify data problems and apply data normalization techniques to solve them.

· Use referential integrity and other data integrity techniques to support the accuracy of data in the database.

· Use criteria and operators and perform appropriate table joins in queries.

· Understand basic SQL queries and techniques for improving the performance of queries.

Course content

Lesson 1: Introduction to Relational Databases

The Basics of Relational Databases

Planning the Database

Lesson 2: Designing Tables

Deciding on Tables and Fields

Selecting Primary Key Fields

Identifying Table Relationships