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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Engineering : School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

433-351 Database Systems

Note:

Credit cannot be obtained for both 433-351 and 433-315 (taken before 1995).

Credit Points:

12.5

Coordinator:

Dr G. Dong

Prerequisite/s:

Computer Science 433-242, 433-243 and 433-244. (From 1998: 433-253 and 433-255.)

Pre/Corequisite/s:

Computer Science 433-241 or Electrical Engineering 431-204. (From 1998: nil.)

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

26 hours of lectures and approximately 17 hours of practice classes

Objectives:

On successful completion of this subject students should:

  • understand the principles of database systems;

  • be able to design database schemas in a data model to suit the application;

  • be able to write efficient database queries in several data manipulation languages.

Content:

Data models: relational, deductive, object-oriented, network, hierarchical, semantic; database design; relation normalisation; query languages including SQL; integrity; security; concurrency; query processing and optimisation; implementation of data models and database languages.

Assessment:

Up to three hours of written examinations at the end of the subject. Project work, which is expected to take about 36 hours, must be completed satisfactorily to pass the subject. Weighting of assessment components will be made known at the commencement of the subject.
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