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615-330 Advanced Concepts in Database and Telecommunications

Note: Students may not gain credit for 615-230 or 615-330 and either 433-351 (Database Systems) or 433-353 (Networks and Communications).

Availability: Not available before 1998.

Credit points: 12.5

Coordinator: To be announced.

Prerequisite: 615-230 (Concepts in Database and Telecommunications)

Contact: Two one hour lectures and up to eight hours of project work per week.

Timetable: First semester.

Objectives:

At the completion of this subject, students should:

• have an in-depth knowledge of the relational database model and be able to write relational database schemas;
• have a working knowledge of some non-relational database models;
• be able to write efficient database queries in Structured Query Language (SQL);
• have knowledge of the different topologies and transmission media commonly used in local area networks and the different types of wide area networks;
• appreciate the function of various network-dependent protocols used with local and wide area networks, and have in-depth knowledge of key aspects of these;
• understand the operation of transport protocols, application support protocols, and application-specific protocols used in network services.

Content:

Topics may include data models, focusing on relational but including network, hierarchical, and possibly others; relational database issues (normalisation, query processing, and optimisation); object-oriented databases (design and query languages); data transmission basics; network connectivity and performance issues; TCP/IP and OSI protocols for open systems.

Assessment:

End of semester written examination of up to three hours project work. Weighting of the assessment components will be announced at the commencement of the subject.

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Science (Volume 4 page 201)

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