Introduction to Data Modeling

In this introductory course, learn how logical and physical data modeling can give you a better understanding of your organization's data, business rules, and information architecture decisions. Examine how data models are critical to your data security, privacy, and compliance posture. And get hands-on with real-world data—analyze it, implement business requirements, develop data models, and forward and reverse-engineer SQL Server databases.

On successful Completion of the course you will be able to:

• Fundamentals of normalization and why it's important to transactional databases
• How to develop logical and physical data models
• How to model data security, privacy and protection requirements
• When and where to model database-specific performance requirements
• How model-driven development fits in a DevOps or agile environment
• How to avoid schema drift and other data anti-patterns