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Undergraduate Program: Curriculum: CM Courses: Management Science and Information Systems Courses: Course Description
  MSIS 411

Database Management

Presents the logical concepts of database systems, the possible physical configurations, and the nature of database management software. Data analysis techniques and supporting modeling tools are reviewed and applied in individual and group projects. Discusses data as an organizational resource in the context of total quality management. Oracle is used extensively in a client/server environment. Topics include data analysis, database models, database management systems, CASE tools for data modeling, data manipulation particularly through SQL, storage allocation, and transaction design. The relevance of data as a resource and its relationship to other components of the organization are reviewed.

Prerequisites

MSIS 310 and 60 credits

 
 

 

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