Data Integrity

Data Integrity is a critical concept in databases, systems design, and data management, focused on maintaining and ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data over its entire life-cycle. Coursera's Data Integrity catalogue teaches you about the fundamental principles, methods, and techniques to enforce data integrity. You'll learn about various types of data integrity including entity, domain, referential, and user-defined, as well as the role of primary and foreign keys, constraints, and normalization in maintaining data integrity. Additionally, you'll gain insights into how data integrity can be compromised and effective strategies to prevent data corruption and loss. This skill is invaluable for roles such as database administrators, system designers, data scientists, and anyone involved in data management.