3.16 Understanding a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Objectives
  • Describe a Relational Data Base (RDB)
  • Identify the Data Elements of a Relational Data Base
  • Outline the Data Requirements of a Relational Data Base.
Examine
  • What is a Relational Database?
  • Why Relational Databases are used (as opposed to flat Table structures)
  • Examples of structuring a RDB (Normalisation)
  • What is Referential Integrity and how it works in a RDB.
  • RDB Schema and Data Structure