This document outlines the objectives and structure of the CSA 623 Database Design course. The course aims to teach students about database concepts from both the designer and user perspectives, with a focus on entity relationship modeling, logical and physical database design, and SQL. By the end of the course students will understand database fundamentals and be able to design databases to meet organizational needs. Evaluation will include tests, a course project, seminar, assignments and an end of term exam.
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CSA 623 Database Design
This document outlines the objectives and structure of the CSA 623 Database Design course. The course aims to teach students about database concepts from both the designer and user perspectives, with a focus on entity relationship modeling, logical and physical database design, and SQL. By the end of the course students will understand database fundamentals and be able to design databases to meet organizational needs. Evaluation will include tests, a course project, seminar, assignments and an end of term exam.
and developing Database Systems • Issues are addressed in both the system designer and user point of view Course Objectives • Upon completion of the course, the students are expected to – Appreciate the role of Database Management within Organizations – Understand the history of Database models and current trends – Be competent in developing Entity- Relationship diagrams to represent database requirements – Be able to design a database to meet the requirements of an organization Course Objectives • Upon completion of the course, the students are expected to – Have an understanding of the concepts related to Physical database design – Know how to evaluate the design quality of a database using the rules of Database Normalization – Use the Structured Query Language (SQL) to define and manipulate data in a relational database Course Objectives • Upon completion of the course, the students are expected to have an idea of – The concepts of Object Oriented Databases – Data Warehousing and Data Mining – Transaction Processing Concepts – Knowledge Discovery from Databases (KDD) – Emerging Technologies • Semi-structured Data • Semantic Web • OLAP • Spatial and Temporal Databases Evaluation Policy • Test 1: 15% • Test 2: 15% • Course Project (Application) : 15% – SRS : 25-01-2008 – System Design • ER Diagram : 10-02-2008 • SDD : 05-03-2008 – Implementation : 25-03-2008 – User Manual : 25-03-2008 – Presentations : 28-03-2008 onwards • Course Seminar : 5% – Topic and Abstract to be submitted by January 19, 2008 • Assignments/Quizzes : 10 % • End Semester Examination : 40 % References 1. Elamasri, Navathe Fundamentals of Database Systems, Fourth Edition, Pearson Education 2. Thomas Connolly and Caroline Begg Database Systems- A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation and Management, 3/e, Pearson Education 3. Ramakrishnan, Gehrke, Database management Systems, Third Edition, Mc GrawHill 4. Peter Rob, Carlos Coronel, Database Systems- Design, Implementation and Management, Seventh Edition, 2007, Thomson Course Technology 5. Current Literature • ACM SIGMOD http://www.sigmod.org/ • Citeseer http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ • J-GATE http://www.j-gate.informindia.co.in