ACARA 7-8 Digital Technologies: Data types and table design
Students choose data types for fields, design a single table with a suitable primary key, and create it and enter records.
One content description (AC9TDI8P03) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 7–8 — Structured Data and Queries journey. All 13 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (13)
1
Text data: character and string
2
Numeric data: integer
3
Numeric data: floating point
4
Date/time data
5
Boolean data
6
Character versus text fields
7
Field data types in a database table
8
Choosing a data type for a value
9
Designing a table structure
10
Primary key
11
Choosing a suitable primary key from a table
12
Creating a database table and entering records
13
Defining a single-table database from storage requirements
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