CS 2550 - Database Design and Application Development

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A database management system (DBMS) is a computer application program designed for the efficient and effective storage, access and update of large volumes of information. This course will look at such systems from two perspectives: 1) A user-centered perspective focusing on how a DBMS is used to support a data intensive application, by examining common relational data modeling, query language and design techniques, and 2) A system implementation perspective focusing on the policies, algorithms and data structures used to design and implement a database. The course will cover the sequential query language (SQL) extensively, as well as database normalization rules. Prerequisite: CS 1030 or NTM 2300.