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GCO3851

Database management systems

BS BB BT DT BC BP BDT

Mr Lindsay Smith

6 points * First semester * 4 hours per week * Gippsland/Distance * Prerequisites: GCO2851 and GCO2852 or GCO1813 and GCO1832

Overview of database management systems; introduction to the relational model; normalisation and relational design; ER modelling, object data modelling, database design language; the hierarchical model; the network model; the fourth generation environment; database administration, database security and recovery, distributed databases and current trends in the field. Interactive SQL and embedded SQL in a third generation language (dBase IV). For distance education students, there is an optional four hours contact at each weekend school, coupled with study guides and provision for additional student contact through phone, fax and electronic mail.

Assessment

Assignments: 30% * Examination: 70%

Prescribed texts

Pratt P J A guide to SQL 2nd edn, Boy and Fraser, 1991

Rob P and Coronel C Database systems: Design, implementation and management Wadsworth, 1993

Senn J A The student edition of dBase IV Version 1.1 Addison-Wesley, 1991



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