Relational Database Design

Learn to create effective relational database designs to enhance your IT career or personal projects with proven concepts and real-world industry knowledge.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about designing awesome relational databases! It's super beginner-friendly, no coding skills required, and packed with videos and helpful PDFs to guide you through everything you need to know about making databases that actually work well.

Key Points

  • Create an effective relational database design.
  • Learn about normalisation and different normal forms.
  • Identify tables, columns, primary and foreign keys.
  • Understand how databases improve data quality and system speed.
  • No prior SQL or programming experience needed.

Learning Outcomes

  • Design a database from scratch with ease.
  • Understand the principles of normalisation.
  • Identify key database components like tables and keys.
  • Set up relationships between tables effectively.
  • Improve overall quality of databases and software.

About This Course

Learn how to create an effective relational database design to use in your IT career or even a personal project.

Learn how to design a proper relational database with this course!

This course will teach you how to create an effective relational database design using proven concepts and industry knowledge.

Effective database designs will help make systems faster, improve data quality, and ensure future changes are easier.

If you want to improve your software development career, get into database admin or database design, or are just curious on this topic, this course is for you.

You don't need to know SQL or have any programming experience to be able to take this Relational Database Design course.

This course includes:

  • Almost three hours of video lessons

  • Included PDF files of the database diagrams at keys steps will help you learn all about database design.

  • The topics covered include normalisation and the normal forms, identifying tables and columns, primary and foreign keys, and setting up relationships.

The videos include explanations of the key topics in the process, as well as demonstrations on how to set up a database using an Entity Relationship Diagram.

I also show you how to download and install the software that is being used for this.

What topics are covered in this database design course?

The topics covered are:

  • We'll walk through a sample database

  • Reason or why the database is needed

  • Some advantages of relational databases

  • Identify entities for the tables and attributes

  • Create tables and columns

  • Reorganise them to make the layout and design more efficient.


If you want to know how to design a database and improve the overall quality of your databases and software, then this is the course for you.

You'll learn all you need to be able to design an effective database!

  • Learn how to design a relational database

  • Learn what normalisation is, and each of the three normal forms

  • Start designing a database from nothing

Instructor

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Ben Brumm

I'm a software consultant that has a passion for databases, and teaching others. I have over seven years experience in the IT industry in many roles, including database support, database development, database design, reporting, business analysis, project management, and even Excel. I obtained the Oracle SQL Expert certification and currently looking into the next certification on my list! I'd like...

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of Swain Shrestha
Swain S.
4.0
8 months ago

Everything is nice, Could have explained more about transitive dependency in Third normal form using the examples.

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ui-avatar of Yogenther Bg
Yogenther B.
4.0
8 months ago

it was great to learn the concepts in this course.

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ui-avatar of Baseeth Beguma
Baseeth B.
4.0
8 months ago

It had clear explanation

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ui-avatar of Luis Pedro Garzaro Chinchilla
Luis P. G. C.
5.0
8 months ago

Un muy buen curso, el contenido es bastante amplio y concreto.

Una forma rápida y segura de como aprender la normalización y que es una base de datos.

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ui-avatar of Khoa Le Tran Minh ㅤ
Khoa L. T. M. �.
4.0
8 months ago

Provide short, concise introductory level information you need to know to create a good database.

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ui-avatar of Arun R
Arun R.
5.0
8 months ago

very nice

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ui-avatar of Khotei Vitalii
Khotei V.
4.5
8 months ago

The course is good, but it could be improved with a more complex examples.

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ui-avatar of Justin Scheepers
Justin S.
2.0
8 months ago

The course is advertised as "Skill level: All Levels". This is a beginners course. Unless you're an absolute beginner, this course won't be of any value to you.

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ui-avatar of Alberto Navarrete Peón
Alberto N. P.
3.0
8 months ago

The slides are ugly (devoid of images, mainly text), and there are no exercises.

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ui-avatar of Mel Quan
Mel Q.
5.0
8 months ago

Good course - very thorough in explaining concepts.

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