CISC 460 - Database Management System

(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: CISC 225 and MATH 310
Description: This course introduces the management of database systems, with strong emphasis on understand the fundamentals of a Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). Central topics include data modeling and normalization, database architecting, and database creation using SQL as both the data definition and data manipulation language. Through these concepts, the student will design and implement a full database system, including all tables, views, triggers, functions, and procedures necessary for use at deployment. This course also introduces some advanced topics within field of database management such as physical database implementation, index creation, distributed databases, NoSQL systems, and big data. Offered Fall semester, annually.