CS M10DB — Database Management Systems and Applications
Introduces modern database concepts while emphasizing the relational database model. Includes such topics as design methodologies, normalization of tables to reduce redundancies, supertypes and subtypes to reduce nulls, data integrity, referential integrity, and using locks and other techniques for concurrency control in a multi-user database. Describes the factors that should be balanced during the design of a database. Documents databases, entity relationship diagrams, relational schemas, and data dictionaries are described. Applies the principles by performing exercises using MS SQL Server, MySQL, or other database management system. Uses SQL and other languages to create and fill tables, retrieve data, and manipulate it by stored programs.