CS 276 - Database Systems and Modeling

4 Credit(s)

This is an introduction to production-scale, relational database environments. Included in the course are discussion and applications of database models, entity relationship design, normalization, as well as an introduction to big data databases.

Prerequisite: CS 275
Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

Identify and explain current data base models and their underlying advantages and disadvantages
Design a moderately complex database structure using Entity-Relationship diagrams
Use Normalization techniques to verify a database design
Create database tables, and insert and update data into the tables using advanced SOL
Identify and describe issues and performance bottlenecks concerning enterprise-level processing by a Database Management System

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