Back-end developers write applications that end-users use to interact with databases. Some common tasks that end-users carry out using these applications include storing, searching, extracting and manipulating data.
Introduction to Databases for Back-End Development
Introduction to Databases for Back-End Development
This course is part of Meta Back-End Developer Professional Certificate
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There are 5 modules in this course
In this module, you鈥檒l receive an introduction to the course and explore possible career roles that you could follow as a database engineer. You鈥檒l also review some tips on how to take this course successfully and discuss what it is that you hope to learn. As part of your introduction, you鈥檒l learn about the basics of databases and data and how they work. You鈥檒l then receive an introduction to SQL, or Standard Query Language, the coding syntax used to interact with databases. Finally, you鈥檒l explore the basic structure of databases and discover the different types of keys they use.
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12 videos10 readings4 assignments1 discussion prompt
In this module, you鈥檒l explore CRUD, or Create, Read Update and Delete operations. You鈥檒l begin with an exploration of SQL data types and learn how to differentiate between numeric data, string data and default values. You鈥檒l also embark upon several exercises in which you鈥檒l learn how to utilize these different data types within your database projects. You鈥檒l then move on to learn how to Create and Read data within a database. You鈥檒l discover how to create databases and tables and populate them with data using SQL statements. Lastly, you鈥檒l explore the SQL statements used for updating and deleting data in a database. And to demonstrate your ability with CRUD operations, you鈥檒l complete exercises that will task you with creating and managing data.
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12 videos4 readings1 quiz9 assignments7 ungraded labs
In this module, you鈥檒l explore SQL operators and learn how to sort and filter data. You鈥檒l begin this module with a lesson on SQL operators. As part of this first lesson, you鈥檒l explore the syntax and process steps used to deploy SQL arithmetic and comparison operators within a database. Next, you鈥檒l discover how to sort and filter data using clauses. The clauses that you鈥檒l learn about include the Order By clause, Where clause and Select Distinct clause. In each lesson item, you鈥檒l receive an overview of how each clause is used to sort and filter data in a database. You鈥檒l also view demonstrations of these clauses and then receive an opportunity to try them for yourself.
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7 videos7 readings3 assignments1 ungraded lab
In this module, you鈥檒l learn about database design. In the first lesson, you鈥檒l receive an overview of how to design a database schema. As part of this overview, you鈥檒l learn about basic database design concepts like schema and find out about different types of schemas. The next lesson focuses on relational database design. In this lesson, you鈥檒l explore how to establish relationships between tables in a database using keys. You鈥檒l also learn about the different types of keys that are used in relational database design, such as primary keys and foreign keys.
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12 videos9 readings6 assignments1 ungraded lab
In this module, you鈥檒l have an opportunity to recap what you learned and identify your strengths as well as target topics that you would like to revisit in this course.
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2 videos2 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt
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Reviewed on Dec 20, 2022
This is one of the best courses so far in this specialization. Very well presented, very easy to grasp, and very enjoyable. I highly recommend.
UA
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Reviewed on Jul 12, 2023
Excellent Course. This Course is not in detail. Database administrations features are not covered such as user authentication etc. Also triggers , functions , logs and other related stuff is missing.
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Reviewed on Jan 6, 2023
very Good Explanation and amazing instructor, but i think the content need to add more intermediate topics of databases such as how to deal with MySQL or what is views and indexs.
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