Database Management Essentials

Part of a larger specialization

This Coursera course lays the foundation for the Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence specialization. It is aimed at learners heading toward database development, data warehousing or business intelligence work.

Skills it covers

• Creating relational databases
• Writing SQL to answer business reporting questions
• Designing databases with entity relationship diagrams
• Spotting excessive redundancy in table designs

Tools and topics

The listed skills include PostgreSQL, Oracle databases and data integrity, so expect work across more than one database system. The course is labeled intermediate, so some familiarity with SQL will help before you start.

Because the course sits inside a specialization, it works best as the first step. Finish it before moving on to the rest of the series, since the schema and SQL habits it builds are the base for the later work.