Grants (discounts) are available for multiple students for the same or different courses.

This 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 designs.

Audience profile

The primary audience for this course is people who are moving into a database role, or whose role has expanded to include database technologies.

At course completion

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 denormalization techniques

Describe relationship types and effects in database design

Describe the effects of database design on performance

Describe commonly used database objects

Prerequisites

This is a foundation level course and therefore only requires general computer literacy.

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to databases

This module introduces key database concepts in the context of SQL Server 2016.

Introduction to relational databases

Other types of database

Data analysis

Database languages

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe what a database is

Understand basic relational aspects

Describe database languages used in SQL Server 2016

Describe data analytics

Describe database languages used in SQL Server 2016

Module 2: Data Modelling

This module describes data modelling techniques.

Data modelling

ANSI/SPARC database model

Entity relationship modelling

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Understand the common data modelling techniques

Describe the ANSI/SPARC database model

Describe entity relationship modelling

Module 3: Normalization

This module describes normalization and denormalization techniques.

Why normalize data?

Normalization terms

Levels of normalization

Denormalization

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe normalization benefits and notation

Describe important normalization terms

Describe the normalization levels

Describe the role of denormalization

Module 4: Relationships

This module describes relationship types and effects in database design.

Schema mapping

Referential integrity

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe relationship types

Describe the use, types, and effects of referential integrity

Module 5: Performance

This module introduces the effects of database design on performance.

Indexing

Query performance

Concurrency

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Discuss the performance effects of indexing

Describe the performance effects of join and search types

Describe the performance effects of concurrency

Module 6: Database Objects

This module introduces commonly used database objects.

Tables

Views

Stored procedures

Other database objects

After completing this module, you will be able to:

Describe the use of tables in SQL Server 2016

Describe the use of views in SQL Server 2016

Describe the use of stored procedures in SQL Server 2016

Describe other database objects commonly used in SQL Server 2016