Advanced Database Tables and Queries with GUI Training

Learning Outcomes

• Design normalized database tables with appropriate relationships using a GUI-based database management system.
• Implement complex queries involving multiple tables, aggregate functions, and subqueries to extract meaningful information.
• Evaluate database designs for efficiency, integrity, and scalability to meet given problem requirements.
• Apply data validation rules and referential integrity constraints to ensure data accuracy and consistency.
• Analyze business problems and translate them into database solutions using advanced table and query design.
• Demonstrate the ability to optimize queries for performance and troubleshoot common database errors.

Target Audience

This course is ideal for database administrators, data analysts, and IT professionals who need to design and manage complex databases using GUI tools. It is also suitable for individuals seeking to advance their skills in database design and querying for business intelligence or operational systems.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment.

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

Hands-on practicals are essential for learners to apply database design and query skills in a real-world context and to build a functional GUI application. Learners will work on structured exercises and a culminating project that integrates all concepts.

Practical Activities

• Database Design and Advanced Queries — Learners create a normalized database with multiple tables, define relationships and constraints, then write advanced SQL queries including JOINs, subqueries, and aggregation. (3h)
• GUI Application Development — Learners build a simple GUI application that connects to their database, allows data entry, displays records, and supports update and delete operations. (3h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	35% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.