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About the Course

Database Management Essentials provides the foundation you need for a career in database development, data warehousing, or business intelligence, as well as for the entire Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence specialization. In this course, you will create relational databases, write SQL statements to extract information to satisfy business reporting requests, create entity relationship diagrams (ERDs) to design databases, and analyze table designs for excessive redundancy. As you develop these skills, you will use either Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL to execute SQL statements and a database diagramming tool such as the ER Assistant or Visual Paradigm to create ERDs. We’ve designed this course to ensure a common foundation for specialization learners. Everyone taking the course can jump right in with writing SQL statements in Oracle, MySQL, or PostgreSQL....

Top reviews

AS

Jun 28, 2020

Very good to every beginner out there trying to get into database management , tasks are really educational , only the normalization section needs more clarification. but as a total it is awesome

DD

Oct 20, 2016

Excellent introduction to DB Management, I learned everything that I wanted to learn from it. I highly recommend it and actually I am already enrolled to the next course of the specialization.

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By Cristy R

Jun 9, 2020

This course has great content, but the peer review process is lacking structure. I found that most of my peer reviews were marked less than 100 with no guidance of what errors I had made, just the comment 'good'. There were also many mistakes in the answer keys, but no clear way to notify the instructor of the issues there were found.

By Harshit S

Oct 17, 2017

Start of this course was very good. But after week 5, assignments became very repetitive and most of the assignments were based on developing an ERD in a tool called ER Assistant. I feel like this part could be covered in 2 weeks time and more stress could have been given to the SQL part of the course.

By Ajay J

Jun 12, 2019

Though content is good slides and delivery style could be better. More comparison with latest technologies can be provided. Need for more interactive quizzes so as to make it more relevant to fast-changing database world.

By STEVEN V D

May 16, 2018

Good course with a lot of hands-on assignments. Sometimes the lectures could be brought in a more intuitive way and were a bit 'over-theorized', which made relatively simple concepts seem more complex than they were.

By TylerOtto

Aug 16, 2016

Great content, horrible technical support from Coursera and the team that runs this program (since it is clearly obvious that Michael Mannino just recorded the videos and is not part of the class anymore).

By Gabriel S

Jan 7, 2022

Well structured course. The first lessons were much harder than the last ones. A good introduction to the basics but I'm not sure what I learned was up to date with the latest developments in the field.

By Jacob G

Mar 24, 2021

Decent broad intro to the concepts of data warehousing. Very long with intro to SQL that could easily have been slimmed down especially since this is considered an intermediate specialization.

By Xiyu F

Jun 15, 2016

The course was clear, I had difficulties to find course materials, especially examples were used in the video class, I wish they had been put in more obvious places.

By Manasa T

Nov 7, 2020

This is a good course for beginners out there. The examples make you understand the concept partially only. It tends to steer towards the boring side a little.

By Andrew T

Jul 7, 2024

The course is detailed and covers key areas of database management. My concern the monotony of listening to the same instructor for all 12 modules

By Arushi D

May 3, 2020

The instructors were really helpful throughout the course. Although this was a basic course, but it was informative and very much helpful.

By Donatien L

Jan 27, 2016

Interesting, I would have liked to deepen SQL knowledge and practice. The conceptual parti seems a little bit too important.

By Saatvik N

Oct 29, 2020

Good for the most part, but some parts were covered too fast, and normalization was covered without adequate explanation

By Carl E D

Jul 25, 2021

The instructions are a bit of a mess which highly affects the purely peer-reviewed assignments.

By CHAVARRIA C K

Dec 12, 2023

Explanations might work in the classroom but unfortunately not virtual by myself

By kevin c

Jul 17, 2023

Good lessons. Slightly too long on the ERD and Table Design

By William M

Feb 5, 2021

Some of the lectures were very vague. Lecture not as clear

By Rana Q U Z

Sep 2, 2016

This course is really helpful About Database Systems.

By Trunghieu 1

Jul 12, 2023

Not good enough, unclear instructions on some parts

By Cesar O M

Jan 3, 2016

I wish to have more contact with the academic crew.

By Amber B

Oct 5, 2016

Need more lessons on nested queries and subqueries

By Ayush J

May 14, 2020

You can give a better explanation of ERD concepts

By Von

May 3, 2022

peer graded submissions are faulty/mediocre.

By Madhusoodhan S

Nov 18, 2016

A free book to read would have been nice.

By Nguyễn T D

Mar 13, 2024

This is useful for the data sector.