Understand relational databases and master SQL for data manipulation and queries.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home
Detailed Course Curriculum
Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.
Introduction
History of DBMS
Purpose of Database Systems
Advantages of using the DBMS approach
Disadvantages of using the DBMS approach
DBMS and its applications: Enterprise Information & Banking and Finance
Example of a Database
Architecture of DBMS
Data Models, Schemas and Instances
Categories of Data Models
Database Schema vs Database State
Data-Manipulation Language (DML)
Data-Definition Language (DDL)
Database Administrators and Database Users
Database Users and User Interfaces
The Database System environment
Database System Utilities
Centralized and Client/Server Architecture for DBMS
High-Level Conceptual Data Models
Introduction to ER Model
Symbols in ER Diagram
Entity types
Entity sets
Attributes
Entity-Set and Keys
Relationship
Relational Model Integrity
CONSTRAINTS
Keys in DBMS
ER DIAGRAM
Naming Conventions
ER Design Issues
Structural constraints Weak entity types
Generalization
Specialization
Relational Model Concepts
Informal Definitions
Formal Definitions
Structure of Relational Databases
Database Schema
Characteristics of Relations
Relational Integrity Constraints
Other Types of Data Constraints
Domains, Attributes, Tuples and Relations
Represent all the Entities and Relationships in Tabular Fashion
PRELIMINARIES
Selection and Projection
Unary Operations
The SELECT Operation
PROJECT Operation
Sequences of Operations and the RENAME Operation with an Example
Set Theory Operations
The UNION, INTERSECTION and MINUS Operations - Examples
The CARTESIAN PRODUCT (CROSS PRODUCT) Operation
Binary Relational Operations and additional relational operations
List of Operators with Purpose
Additional Relational Operations and Generalized Projection
Relational Database Design using ER-to-Relational mapping
Procedure to Create a Relational Schema from an Entity-Relationship (ER)
Mapping of Binary 1: N Relationship Types
Introduction
SQL Data Definition and commands
Operators and Expressions
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!
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Course Overview
Duration:30 hours
Track:Software Development
Skill Level:Foundation
Language:English
Mode:Learn at ALC or at Home
Certificate:Official MKCL
Key Course Highlights:
Articulate the purpose and advantages of using DBMS in varied industries.
Classify and differentiate data models, schemas, and instances.
Design ER diagrams to model real-world systems with appropriate attributes, keys, and relationships.
Apply concepts of relational integrity and implement various types of constraints.
Convert conceptual designs into relational schemas and tabular representations.
Master relational algebra operations like projection, selection, joins, and set theory operations.
Execute SQL statements for defining, querying, and manipulating data structures.
Map complex relationships (1:1, 1:N, M:N, multivalued) into relational designs and write efficient relational queries.