Every time a company searches for a customer’s order history, updates stock levels, or pulls last quarter’s sales report, a database management system and a query language are doing the real work behind the scenes. A DBMS is the set of programs that controls how data is organised, stored, updated and retrieved — capable of running many databases at once and letting multiple users work with them simultaneously — while SQL is the language used to actually talk to that data.

This course builds both sides of that skill: creating and linking database tables from sources such as Excel, Word or other databases, and writing the SQL that retrieves, updates and protects the information stored inside them.

By the end of the course, participants will recognise:

• How to update, operate and maintain relational databases.
• How to protect the security and integrity of stored data.
• How to control the synchronisation of processes running against a database.

Who should attend:

• Establishment owners and managers looking to develop their business, and managers of offices and enterprises.
• Managers of state institutions and economic or commercial establishments.
• Database management systems developers, and chiefs of sections responsible for information confidentiality.
• Employees in technical departments and organisations already using software systems.
• Managers and supervisors of software and IT departments who want to develop their teams.

Module 1: Relational Databases and How They Are Built

• Database definition and importance.
• How tables are created — from scratch, by import, or by linking to sources like Excel, Word or another database.
• Database management systems (DBMS) and the strategies behind managing them.

Module 2: Querying Data with SQL

• What Structured Query Language (SQL) is, its properties and how it works.
• Mastering established methods for managing databases and information systems.
• Studying advanced features that connect institutions with high-performing companies.

Module 3: Securing Databases and Information

• Maintaining database confidentiality and protecting the information stored inside them.
• Management strategies for confidential information security, and Information Security Management (ISM).
• Access protection systems and the role of Smart Cards in reinforcing security.

Module 4: Information Systems Foundations Behind the Database

• Information Systems definition and importance, and the scientific and methodological way of defining them.
• Method of Information Systems engineering and assessment.