FIT9003 - Database systems design
6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL
Postgraduate Faculty of Information Technology
Leader(s): Dr Rob Meredith (Caulfield); Ms Suryani Lim (Gippsland)
Offered
Caulfield Second semester 2009 (Day)
Gippsland Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Synopsis
This unit is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts necessary for the analysis, design, use and implementation of business information systems using relational database management systems. The main topics covered include requirements elicitation, systems analysis and design informed by a lifecycle based methodology, motivation for the database approach to managing information, conceptual modelling, coverage of logical process and data models (hierarchical, network and relational data models), and the use of SQL and other facilities provided by database management systems.
Objectives
To develop student knowledge of the techniques for functional analysis of a business problem, requirements specification of a database application system, and planning, designing, implementing and manipulating a database within a methodological framework.
Assessment
Examination: 50%; Assignments: 50%
Contact hours
4 hrs/week
Prohibitions
CSE9002, BUS3112, BUS4112, IMS9001, IMS9003, GCO9804, BUS9003, CSE4430, BUS5071, FIT1004, FIT2010, FIT9012, FIT9019