Program: MSIS/PhD
Course Areas
General Information Studies Elective
Catalog Description
Principles and practices of database management and database design. Discussion and implementation of a database. Application life cycle, data dictionaries, relational database design, SQL queries, reports and other interfaces to database data, and documentation. Students work on individual and group projects.
Instructor Description
Database is the foundation of Data Science. It provides the unique design to store, retrieve, and manage data. Data become the essential gas to power the generative AI. How to model data, encode context, enforce business rules, and achieve efficiency are critical for database design. This course provides the introductory understanding of relational database design with the focus on three parts. The first part is centered around the database design lifecycle by introducing business rules, ER diagram, normalization, and UML chart. The second part talks about database query language SQL by explaining concepts and providing examples. The third part gives you the forward introduction of XML database which is the commonly used NoSQL database. The learning content will be delivered in the variety of exercises including lectures, tutorials, class activities, individual assignments, group assignments, and group projects. This course empathizes peer learning, hands-on practices, forward exploring, and risk taking.
Prerequisites
Graduate Standing.
Restrictions
Restricted to graduate student in the School of Information.
Scheduled and Upcoming Classes for this Course
Class Name | Semester | Day(s) | Start Time(s) | End Time(s) | Building | Room |
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INF 385M: Database Management
Ying Ding |
Fall Term 2025 |
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INF 385M: Database Management
Michael Mcquaid |
Summer Term 2025 | |||||
INF 385M: Database Management
Shounak Roychowdhury Syllabus |
Spring Term 2025 |
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Past Classes for this Course
Class Name | Semester | Day(s) | Start Time(s) | End Time(s) | Building | Room |
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INF 385M: Database Management
Stan Gunn Syllabus |
Summer Term 2024 | |||||
INF 385M: Database Management
Stan Gunn Syllabus |
Spring Term 2024 | |||||
INF 385M: Database Management
Ying Ding Syllabus |
Fall Term 2024 |
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INF 385M: Database Management
Stan Gunn |
Summer First Term 2023 | |||||
INF 385M: Database Management
Stan Gunn Syllabus |
Spring Term 2023 | |||||
INF 385M: Database Management
Stan Gunn Syllabus |
Fall Term 2023 | |||||
INF 385M: Database Management
Stan Gunn Syllabus |
Summer Term 2022 | |||||
INF 385M: Database Management
Stan Gunn Syllabus |
Spring Term 2022 | |||||
INF 385M: Database Management
Stan Gunn Syllabus |
Fall Term 2022 |