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gINT-003: DATA DESIGN

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Course Description

gINT 003 is for the gINT user who wants to manipulate the database structure of project databases. As we say in our marketing literature, gINT is not just a reportbase but a database manager for subsurface information. Does your organization work with subsurface data that isn’t in your standard gINT database? This course will give you the tools to manipulate your project structures so that you can enter or import all the data you work with and relate it to other data using sound database design principles. (Later, when you study report design in gINT University, you’ll learn how to represent your unique tables and fields on reports.)

This class also covers the component lithology model, a special data structure for entering material descriptions that enables greater consistency, querying capability, and speed of entry than freeform lithology descriptions offer.

The course covers the following topics:

• Relational Databases and gINT
• Keys and Key Sets
• Creating and Customizing a Database (PROJECT, POINT, SAMPLE, LITHOLOGY, WATER LEVELS, WELL CONSTRUCTION)
• Generating a Project and Importing the Data
• Considerations for Good Database Design
• Attribute Tables
• Benefits of Component Lithology
• Understanding How a Component Description Structure Works
• The Component Data Entry Table and Lookup Tables
• The Component Formatting Library Table

Completion of gINT 001 or prior experience using gINT is recommended for this course.

Schedule

(The first 15 minutes of class is for getting up and running)