Course overview
This course provides the foundation knowledge and skills required by individuals who are responsible for building SuperSTAR databases using SuperCHANNEL.
Through lectures, demonstration and hands-on labs, participants will learn about the SuperSTAR database structure and how to apply this knowledge when building a high-performing and easy-to-use database.
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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 Foundation course covers the following topics:
- Introducing SuperSTAR database concepts
- Navigating SuperCHANNEL
- Connecting to data sources and data targets
- Designing databases
- Understanding data types
- Changing target attributes
- Building a first database
- Reviewing options (cleansing options, grouping options, summation options)
- Creating hierarchical fields
- Configuring SuperCHANNEL
- Managing XML project files
- Troubleshooting
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 SuperCROSS Foundation Course or have significant experience with SuperCROSS
- 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
- basic SQL skills