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Your Course Module

Learn about the databases that power your APIs and web front ends. We start broad and then focus in on practical fun with SQL and Postgres.

What's included?

You'll visit the basics of databases and data modelling, you'll get to learn SQL as a language to be able to interact with data and finally you'll build a practical Postgres set-up for yourself!

Basics of SQL Databases

We will start out giving you an overview of SQL databases and what makes them useful. Then you'll learn about the power of SQL as a query language.

Connecting to a database

Once you've got the query language down and you can design your own schema it's time for the real deal. We will take you through setting up your own deployed Postgres database.

Modelling Data

Knowing how to query data is no use if the data has been modelled in a bad way! In SQL, datastore normalisation and schema planning is important. We will cover both.

Project

You'll bring it all together with a team-based project at the end of the module, which should serve as a great way to understand the ins and outs of database engineering.

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Victoria Eyres

An excellent course (and it really isn't about code!). Team work, problem solving and a new future... You really couldn't find a friendlier bunch of people. It is hard work and it will be difficult at times, but wow it really is the best thing I have ever done!