Data Dictionaries

Overview/Description
To give students a complete understanding of the construction and validation of a data dictionary

Target Audience
Software development managers, IT managers, software developers, and database administrators

Prerequisites
An understanding of the principles of software engineering and software design; an understanding of the role of analysts, designers, and programmers; and an understanding of the importance of the concepts of completeness and correctness in software development, in particular in analysis and design

Expected Duration
3 hours

Objectives:

Data Dictionaries

  • To describe the role of data dictionaries in systems analysis
  • To show how to define data items in a data dictionary
  • To validate a data dictionary by identifying and eliminating inconsistencies


    • Course Number: SADD07E