Brief Summary
This course is all about designing relational databases in a fun and approachable way! You’ll learn how to structure data, understand relationships, and use SQL—all without needing any programming skills. Perfect for anyone looking to get a solid grip on database design.
Key Points
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Understand the difference between a database and other forms like spreadsheets or filing cabinets.
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Learn about SQL, including data definition language and data manipulation language.
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Master the concepts of entities, attributes, and relationships for database structure.
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Dive into different types of relationships: one to one, one to many, and many to many.
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Get familiar with various types of keys, including primary keys and foreign keys.
Learning Outcomes
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Design relational databases with confidence.
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Effectively use SQL for database management.
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Identify and implement different relationships between data.
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Differentiate between various types of keys and their purposes.
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Understand key database design vocabulary to enhance your knowledge.
About This Course
Learn relational database Design with practical concepts and examples. This series works with any database system!
Whichever database application you use does not matter! This course will cover design concepts for all relational database management systems. This course is designed for those who want to download this course or watch it ad free. This is a course for relational database design. Here are some examples of the most popular databases:
MySQL
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server
PostgreSQL
SQLite
MiariaDB
and MORE!
We start off this course by taking our time to first look at what a database is and how it differs from a spreadsheet, website, filing cabinet, and so forth. We introduce SQL and talk about data definition language and data manipulation language. After about 4 solid videos of explaining databases and SQL, we dive into learning about entities and attributes. We apply all of these concepts to structure tables and relationships. We learn to design all of the relationships and I explain everything in depth.
Most of the videos are on my chalkboard, explaining concepts. This is because it helps to fully understand database design before you dive into designing your own database. Once we go over all of the concepts of database design we will be designing databases from start to finish.
No programming skills are required. This course does not program a database. This course will only be teaching how to best design your database. You may be wondering why such a large course is required for only designing a database. Well, designing a database is an extremely important part of database management. The best design will get us the best results and make programming our database really easy.
After this course you should be able to tackle almost any database design project with confidence and skill. Keep in mind though that learning database design takes a lot of time and effort. Be sure to take notes and stop after each video to reflect on what you've learned. Keeping notes will make this video course a whole lot easier!
Learn the definition of relations, tuples, attributes, and over one hundred other vocabulary words!
Learn all of the types of relationships and how to properly design them all within a database. This includes one to one, one to many, and many to many. You will also learn about the difference between a parent table and a child table
Learn about all of the types and categories of keys including superykeys, candidate keys, primary keys, alternate keys, natural keys, surrogate keys, simple keys, compound keys, composite keys, and foreign keys
Chris H.
Not a well put together video series so far. The instructor often repeats himself and rambles. Even if the content is technically presented, it's just hard to watch.