Database Management Systems

Catalog description

Course provides an overall understanding of database techniques, beginning with a study of the characteristics of relational database management systems and continuing with structured query language (SQL), entity--relationship diagrams, dependencies and normalization, and multi-user systems. Evolving approaches to database management, such as object-oriented database, will also be examined. Projects will require the student to develop a database design from the analysis stages to the final implementation by utilizing various design tools and a DBMS package such as Oracle.