RDBMS - Online Course

This series provides an introduction to relational database management systems. The series covers basic types of databases, data integrity, the relational model, entity relationship modeling, ormalization, and performance measurement.

This series is for programmers and database administrators who want to learn more about relational database principles. This online course contains 1 lesson and should take approximately 4 hours to complete.

Lesson 1: Database Principles (4.0) hours

Database Principles teaches you how to describe databases and database management systems, explain relational database management systems, design simple database models using Entity-Relationship Modeling, normalize a database, measure the performance of a database, estimate the storage needs of a database, and explain the reasons for and pitfalls of denormalizing a database. This course provides an introduction to relational database management systems. The course covers basic types of databases, data integrity, the relational model, entity relationship modeling, normalization, and performance measurement. Topics include Understanding Databases, Relational Database Management Systems, Entity-Relationship Models (ERDs), Understanding Normalization, and Planning and Management.