Computer Science Information Systems
CSIS 350 Database Management Systems
A study of the basic concepts, models, internal mechanisms and language aspects of Database Management Systems. The primary emphasis is on the definition, organization and manipulation of data at the logical level. Topics, include: conceptual modeling, the relational model, transformation of conceptual to relational models, normalization, physical database design, SQL and GUI query languages, recovery, concurrency, security and integrity, distributed databases, Internet database interfaces, client/server databases, database administration and feature analysis of DBMS. Students will design and implement relational database applications.