Database Management

Catalog description

Databases help organizations store what they know. Everything from information about business partners to supply chain management data to customer/consumer behavior is stored in a database of some type. It is no exaggeration to say all investment in computer technologies over the past few decades has been made in order to enable the collection, storage, analysis, synthesis, and communication of data, and it is all facilitated by database systems. As such, databases are the foundational technologies for enabling business intelligence and analytics services and activities. Students in this course will be exposed to the theoretical underpinnings of database systems, their component technologies, enabling processes, and to current and emerging applications. Students will obtain basic hands-on experience with an end-user database application (MS Access), an open-sourced enterprise-level system (MySQL), and an understanding of the capabilities of all enterprise-level relational database management systems. The course is required of all students pursuing a BI&A major or minor.