Database Systems

Catalog description

This course covers information systems design and implementation within a database management system (DBMS) environment. Students learn to create data models of user’s needs, gain foundation skills in database design and learn to use standard Structured Query Language (SQL) to interact with databases. The focus of the course includes the relational database model, the Entity-Relationship (E-R) model, SQL, database design and implementation, database normalization and multiuser DBMS administrative management.