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Database Management Essentials: Module 1: Course Introduction Lesson 1: Course Objectives

This document outlines an introductory course on database management essentials. The course provides foundational skills for careers in business intelligence, including creating entity relationship diagrams and SQL queries, and designing databases without redundancy. It is part of a specialization in data warehousing and is targeted towards students, IT professionals, and business analysts.

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Database Management Essentials: Module 1: Course Introduction Lesson 1: Course Objectives

This document outlines an introductory course on database management essentials. The course provides foundational skills for careers in business intelligence, including creating entity relationship diagrams and SQL queries, and designing databases without redundancy. It is part of a specialization in data warehousing and is targeted towards students, IT professionals, and business analysts.

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Information Systems Program

Database Management Essentials

Module 1: Course Introduction


Lesson 1: Course Objectives

Lesson Objectives
Gain context for this course in the specialization
Understand targeted learners for this course
Understand broad course objectives and prerequisite
background

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Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence


Course 1

Database management
essentials

Course 2

Data
Data warehouse
warehouse design
design and
and
data
data integration
integration

Course 3

Relational
Relational database
database support
support for
for
data
data warehouses
warehouses

Course 4

Business
Business intelligence
intelligence concepts,
concepts,
tools,
tools, and
and applications
applications

Course 5

Capstone
Capstone course
course with
with aa
comprehensive
comprehensive case
case study
study
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Targeted Learners
University students

Project management

IT professionals

Business analysts

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Broad Course Objectives


Provide a foundation of database management background for a
business intelligence career
Explain characteristics of databases and features of database
management systems
Create tables and formulate business queries using SQL
Create entity relationship diagrams (ERDs) to represent business
requirements
Convert an ERD to a table design
Analyze table designs for unwanted redundancy
Reflect on guidelines and goals for query formulation, redundancy
elimination, and data modeling
5

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Prerequisite Background
Not an introductory computing course
Basic computing concepts and personal
computing applications
No computer programming but detailed concepts
and skills

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Summary
Basic course on database management concepts and
skills
Develop knowledge and skills for query formulation and
database development
Prerequisite background for other courses in the data
architectures track
Career opportunities for IT professionals as well as
business and computer science students

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