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Home > Professional Development > Spring 2009 Seminars > Fundamentals of Database Design

Fundamentals of Database Design

Monday, March 16, 2009

9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (full day)

 Objective, Audience/Expected Skill Level, and Format

 

Objective:  To learn out how to take non-structured data, for example a business form, and break it up into a well-structured set of data.

Audience/Expected Skill Level:  This seminar is best for people who have used some sort of data management tool in the past, such as MS Access/Excel, FileMaker Pro, etc.

 

Format: Computer Lab

 

 Seminar Description

 

Overview: This seminar is a little bit of theory, and a whole lot of practice. We'll be taking a standard business form, breaking it out into pieces, and building a MySQL database to manage the data.

 

Highlights:

·         Create a MySQL database and make tables that will hold that data.

·         What to do and (more importantly) what not to do when modelling data with MySQL.

 

 

 Text Provided

 Instructor Profile

 

Sean Stickle

 

 

 Sean Stickle

 

Describes himself as "just another programmer."  Started out with Commodore BASIC and 6502 assembler in junior high school, then to LISP and Hypercard in college, and now on Ruby and Perl in professional life. Started working with MySQL in 2000, and has been using it regularly since. Has a deep affinity for APL and is trying to bring it back on the JVM, and a fierce devotee of the Literate Programming methodology. Has taught many internal company classes on MySQL, Database Design, Ruby & Ruby on Rails, Throughput Accounting, Lean Software Development, and the Theory of Constraints. 

 

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