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Overview

Introduction to database technology, including database theory, design, construction, and management.

About this paper

Paper title Database Systems
Subject Computer and Information Science
EFTS 0.1500
Points 18 points
Teaching period Semester 2 (On campus)
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Prerequisite
18 100-level COMP or DATA points
Restriction
COSC 344, COSC 444, DATA 403
Schedule C
Arts and Music, Commerce, Science
Contact

School of Computing Advisor

Teaching staff

To be advised.

Textbooks

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Graduate Attributes Emphasised
Scholarship, Critical thinking, Information literacy.
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Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the paper will be able to:

  • Distinguish between data, data models, database models, databases and database management systems (DBMS) and describe their various functions.
  • Translate a high-level database design into an equivalent database schema.
  • Design, implement and test code to create databases, populate them with data and query them.
  • Understand the differences between different types of DBMS and which type of DBMS is appropriate for a given problem.
  • Extract, clean and transform data from various sources and load data into a target database.
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