Microsoft Visio Tutorial

This course explains how to create database models that provide a visual representation of a database schema. This course describes the stencils and templates users can use to draw database models and provides a detailed explanation of the process of drawing a database model. It also explains how to use wizards that can extract a database model from an existing database and update that model when the database changes. This is self-paced, internet-based Microsoft Visio tutorial -- there are no books to purchase and no scheduled classes to attend

Microsoft Visio
Tools Commands Menus

Visio Tutorial
Objects and Hyperlinks

Visio 2002
Shape Menu

Visio Stencil

Working with Shapes

Using Styles

Working with Data

ShapeSheets

FlowCharts

Database Models

• Identify the templates available in the database solution
• Create a database model using the Database Model Diagram template
• Create a Database Model Diagram based on an existing database
• Update a Database Model Diagram to reflect changes to an existing database
• Explain how you can generate a physical database from a Database Model diagram

• Understanding the Database Model Diagram Template
• Using the Express-G Template
• Using the Object Role Modeling Template
• Reverse-Engineering a Database Model
• Defining Tables
• Defining Columns
• Defining Foreign Key Relationships
• Defining Data Types
• Creating Indexes
• Creating Views
• Adding Local Code
• Adding Global Code
• Updating a Database Model

• Exercises that allow users to practice the application
• Simulations that allow users to practice course skills, even if they don't have access to the application
• Notes - See additional information related to the topic in the text
• Tips - See a different, faster, or easier way of doing something
• Quick References - See a quick reference guide to the features introduced in a chapter
• Details - Display more detailed information related to the current topic
• Hotwords - See related information
• Navigation Bar - Maneuver easily through the courses
• Course Topics and Index -- with searching feature and hyper-links
• Skill Assessment - can be used for pre and post-testing -- tracking first try, best try and course grade - if passed, green check mark will appear as 'mastered' - hyperlinks to units within the course to go back and re-take a certain unit again. Use as pre-test to determine which course topics you want to focus on and to go directly into that unit.

This course is for users who have some familiarity with Windows applications, as well as database modeling and database modeling notation, and who want to get the most out of Visio 2002.

200MHz Pentium with 32MB Ram. 640 x 480 256-color video (800 x 600 is recommended). Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, or XP. Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher required. Minimum Connection Speed: 28.8k. Authorware and Macromedia Flash player recommended but not required. JavaScript must be enabled. Netscape and AOL browsers not supported.

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