INTRODUCTION TO DATABASES

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Three hours of lecture/laboratory per week. This is an introductory course in database management systems with emphasis on relational database design and applications development. Topics include entity relationship model, relational model, object -oriented model and object -relational model; database design techniques such as E -R modeling, E -R to relational mappings, functional, and normalization; structured query language (SQL); applications servers and DBMS; transaction processing and database recovery; DBMS implementation techniques such as storage management, indexing, and access methods, query evaluation, and optimization. This course will also enable students to expand their communications and information skills through the development of a complete database application project.