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Information Technology

Structured Query Language (SQL)

Submitted to:

Dr. Tony Rosales

Prepared by:

Amrit Virdee

HCIN-546-02-SU18 - Capstone
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Structured Query Language (SQL)

SQL is a means of manipulating and querying data in relational databases, SQL became a

standard of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1986, and of the International

Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1987. With SQL you can execute queries against a

database, retrieve data, insert, update and delete records. Prior to the Database Design and

Management module I had not used SQL or Microsoft Access. The learnings from this module

really helped me better understand the basic concepts of databases and how they can be

manipulated using Access and with SQL. One of the artifacts that I have included is my

response to a discussion on computed fields. I wanted to use my own use-case example so I

chose to calculate adherence. Medication adherence is primarily calculated by using Proportion

of Days Covered (PDC), this is endorsed by the Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA). The artifact

shows my ability to calculate a computed field which refers to a new calculated number by using

the values in the fields already present.

The second artifact refers to additional examples for using SQL commands, in this case I

use SQL to query a relational database (data from TAL Distributors) by entering commands to

obtain desired results. The first example shows how to use the SELECT command to get the

Customer Number and Name from the Customer table. The learnings in this module allowed me

to look at the current structure of the database used by PillView and develop a final project based

around two tables the Description table which contains fields on the shape, color, imprints of the

medication and the Reference table which contains fields of the image files that correspond to a

particular description in the Description table. The relationship between the tables is a one-to-

many relationship.