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Generative AI Database Design & Management with ChatGPT

Dive into AI-powered database design techniques using ChatGPT to create adaptable schemas, generate test data, simulate performance, and optimize migrations—transforming how you develop and maintain database systems.
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Vanderbilt University

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Vanderbilt University is a private research university in Nashville, TN, offering world-class interdisciplinary education and award-winning research opportunities.

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Overview

Imagine designing databases that evolve with your business, anticipate future needs, and solve problems you haven't even encountered yet. This course teaches you to use AI as your intelligent design partner—creating database architectures neither human nor AI could achieve alone.

You'll master AI-powered design techniques that transform traditional database development, leveraging generative AI for schema simulation, automated gap analysis, and AI-facilitated requirement discovery. Together with your AI collaborator, you'll craft schemas that reduce technical debt, minimize migrations, and maintain peak performance through AI-optimized design choices.

What You'll Learn:

• Test queries against AI-simulated databases before writing any code • Identify design blind spots using AI-powered gap analysis techniques • Have AI interview you with intelligent questions to uncover critical data insights • Convert spreadsheets or photographs into AI-optimized database schemas • Use AI to simulate database performance under various usage scenarios • Create AI-enhanced design packages that document both implementation and reasoning Skills That Will Transform Your Work:

• Generate thousands of rows of AI-crafted realistic test data in seconds • Create AI-designed dashboards to validate your design's reporting capabilities • Design AI-optimized migration paths for evolving database needs • Build AI-documented databases that new team members can understand immediately • Explore multiple AI-generated design alternatives to find optimal solutions This course is for anyone who designs or maintains databases—from beginners to seasoned architects. You'll learn practical AI collaboration techniques that dramatically enhance your ability to create systems that are adaptable, resilient, and perfectly aligned with business needs.

Join us to master the art of human-AI collaborative database design and create systems that truly stand the test of time.

Syllabus

  • Expert Database Design with AI
  • This module introduces you to transformative techniques for using AI as a true design partner in database development, helping you create schemas that are more adaptable, robust, and aligned with business needs.
  • Rapid Prototyping, Refinement, and Testing of Database Design with AI
  • This module explores how to leverage AI to dramatically accelerate the database design lifecycle through iterative prototyping, simulation, and testing—all before writing a single line of implementation code.
  • Dashboards & Reports: Rapid Design, Prototyping, and Database Optimization with AI
  • This module focuses on transforming database designs into actionable insights through AI-powered dashboard and reporting tools. Students will learn how to rapidly prototype and implement visualization solutions that directly connect to their database designs.
  • Database Migration and Optimization with AI
  • This module explores powerful techniques for using AI to transform existing data sources into optimized database designs and manage schema migrations when requirements change.

Taught by

Dr. Jules White


Subjects

Computer Science