Welcome to the specialization course Relational Database Systems. This course will be completed on six weeks, it will be supported with videos and various documents that will allow you to learn in a very simple way how several types of information systems and databases are available to solve different problems and needs of the companies.
Relational database systems
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Relational database systems
This course is part of Database systems Specialization
Instructor: María del Pilar Ángeles
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There are 6 modules in this course
In the first module named information systems, we will learn how people, hardware, software, networks, techniques and procedures work together to automate transactional processes that companies need for their daily operations. Let's start!
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2 videos1 reading1 assignment2 discussion prompts
The present module is focused on Conceptual Design. The learner will be able to create an Entity Relationship Diagram through the Conceptual Design from business requirements.
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2 videos1 assignment2 peer reviews2 discussion prompts
The present module is focused on Logical Design. The learner will be able to create an Relational Model from the entity-relationship diagram
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2 videos1 assignment2 peer reviews2 discussion prompts
The present module is focused on Physical Design. The learner will be able to create database objects with data definition language from the Structured Query Language.
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3 videos2 readings1 assignment2 peer reviews1 discussion prompt
The present module is focused on Data Manipulation Language on SQL programming to feed and query relational database objects.
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3 videos2 peer reviews1 discussion prompt
The present module is focused on query optimization according to type of information systems.
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