Course overview
The SuperCHANNEL Advanced Course is designed to build on participants' existing knowledge of SuperCHANNEL.
Through lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants will be exposed to SuperCHANNEL's full capacity. Participants will gain the experience essential for creating more flexible and efficient SuperSTAR databases.
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Who should take this course?
The target audience for this course includes:
- database administrators
- data managers
- business areas technical support providers
- SuperSTAR administrators.
Topics covered
The SuperCHANNEL Advanced course covers the following topics:
- Reviewing and extending SuperCHANNEL skills
- Appending, updating, and deleting records
- Building an SXV4 database from multiple source databases
- Using the SNU command line
- Configuring SuperCHANNEL
- Understanding the SuperCHANNEL XML Project file format
- Introducing SuperCHANNEL Registry tables
- Implementing multi-response fields
- SuperSTAR database build best practice
- Building from a Textual Data Definition source (optional)
- Working with cubes in SuperSTAR (optional)
Each student receives a course manual and a lab book. These can be used as reference guides after the course is completed.
Prerequisite skills
For this course we strongly recommend that participants have:
- attended the SuperCHANNEL Introductory Course or have significant experience with SuperCHANNEL
- knowledge of Microsoft Windows basic concepts and functionality, such as dragging and dropping objects and using menus and toolbars
- knowledge of database concepts such as definitions of tables fields, primary keys, and foreign keys.
Next recommended courses
Space-Time Research can arrange customized workshops using your data to supplement the knowledge gained through attendance of the standard SuperCHANNEL courses.