Instructor:  TBA

M,W 10:30-12 LEC
F 10:30 – 11:30 DIS

4 credits

Provides basic introduction to relational database management systems (DBMSs). This course is designed to provide you with both an external and an internal view of relational DBMSs. Topics related to the external view will cover concepts that will allow you to use a relational DBMS. Topics related to the internal view will allow you to better understand how a relational DBMS works, making you more sophisticated (and perhaps higher paid) database users/administrators. The course has a group project in which you will build a simple, but fairly complete, single-user relational database engine. Note, in this course you will not learn the details of how to use any specific commercial database system, or the intricacies of SQL programming. This course is designed to cover the fundamental database concepts and the implementation techniques that are used in relational database engines. Using the course project, you will actually build a few key components of a database engine. If you are interested in the details of SQL programming, or the operation of a specific commercial database system, you will be able to pick this up very easily after you have taken this course.