The assignment content involves creating a database with tables for EMPLOYEE, DEPARTMENT, and ISSUES. The EMPLOYEE table contains information about employees such as their name, salary, phone number, and department number. The DEPARTMENT table contains information about departments such as the department name, employee number, and office ID. The ISSUES table contains information about issues such as the issue date, status, details, remarks, and employee number. The assignment also includes five SQL queries that can be used to retrieve specific data from the tables.