Database Fundamentals

Catalog description

This course provides students with the background to plan, design, implement, maintain, and use database management systems. It addresses database structures, requirements, functions and evaluation of database management systems. The course focuses on the relational database model, standard SQL language, database structure normalization, conceptual data modeling, and the entity-relationship data model. Concepts of data integrity, security, privacy, and concurrence control are included. Prerequisites: (CSC 200 or 2000 ).