General Overview

Most of us are not database experts but many of us will be required to handle data and/or databases at some time or other while employed at Environment Canada.

Unless data is readily available and easily understood, it will not be used and the weeks-months-years spent collecting the data will be wasted.

This module is intended to provide a general overview of databases. It will introduce to you, in general terms, some of the concepts and techniques common to database design, setup and maintenance.