SQL Database Fundamentals and Business Intelligence

Catalog description

The effective use of data across firms to deliver fast and intelligent services presents one of the most critical challenges to today’s business leaders. This course is designed to introduce students to basic concepts and techniques in the theory, design, implementation and administration of relational databases. Topics to be covered include, the database design process, the entity-relationship (ER) model, normalization, queries in Structured Query Language (SQL), distributed and client-server databases, database administration, and big data analysis. We will build a database application as a completion project. This course focuses on the skills and concepts needed to design and query databases and therefore contribute to companies’ competitive positions.