CSC722: Advanced database development 6 credits (40-10-10)

Objectives

To study the development and management of database to support business operations.

Contents

Relational model; dependencies and normal form; database specification; the relational design, syntactic and semantic design issues in data analysis; the three-schema approach; semantTo study the development and management of database to support business operations.ic modelling; mapping to relational; network; hierarchical data model; database management system; failure and recovery, concurrency management; database security; integrity and control; distributed databases; knowledge base and database systems; object-oriented databases; fourth generation languages and client-server database applications; current topics in database research.