IS 456 Database Systems Management
This course provides the students with an introduction to the core concepts in data and information management. It is centered around the core skills of identifying organizational information requirements, modeling them using conceptual data modeling techniques, converting the conceptual data models into logical/physical data models and verifying its structural characteristics, and implementing and utilizing a relational or non-relational database using an industrial-strength database management system. The course will also cover basic database administration tasks and critical concepts of data quality and data security. In addition to developing database applications, the course helps the students understand how large-scale packaged systems are highly dependent on the use of DBMSs. This course introduces data and information management technologies that provide decision support capabilities under the broad business intelligence umbrella.