Fall 2009 Section List for IS 431

Offered by Information Systems.

Prerequisite: completion of 100 level course in the computing sciences: CS 101 or CS 111 or CS 113 or CS 115 or IS 118. Database system components; data modeling using the Entity-Relationship model, Semantic Object model, UML and other data models; Relational Database Managment Systems-functionality and design concepts and applications; querying a database; Structured Query Language; functional dependencies and higher order normalization for relational database design; relation decomposition; overview of concurrency control and transaction management, Database application design and management issues. Student projects involve the use of DBMS packages, including Oracle and Microsoft Access.