IST 659 is an introductory course to database management systems. This course examines data structures, file organizations, concepts, and principles of database management systems (DBMS) as well as data analysis, database design, data modeling, database management, and database implementation.
IST 659 is an introductory course to database management systems.
This course examines data structures, file organizations, concepts, and principles of database management systems (DBMS) as well as data analysis, database design, data modeling, database management, and database implementation.
More specifically, it introduces hierarchical, network, and relational data models; entity-relationship modeling; basics of Structured Query Language (SQL); data normalization; and database design.
Using Microsoft’s Access and SQL Server DBMSs as implementation vehicles, this course provides hands-on experience in database design and implementation through assignments, lab exercises, and course projects.
This course also introduces advanced database concepts such as transaction management and concurrency control, distributed databases, multitier client/server architectures, web-based database applications, data warehousing, and NoSQL.