Undergraduate - UnitFIT1004 - Data management

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Information Technology
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2012 (Day) Berwick Second semester 2012 (Day) Clayton Second semester 2012 (Day) Gippsland Second semester 2012 (Day) Gippsland Second semester 2012 (Off-campus) Sunway Second semester 2012 (Day) South Africa Second semester 2012 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will provide an introduction to the concepts of database design and usage and the related issues of data management. Students will develop skills in planning, designing, and implementing a data model using an enterprise-scale relational database system (Oracle). Methods and techniques will also be presented to populate, retrieve, update and implement integrity features on data in the implemented database system.

Manipulation of a database necessarily raises issues of data collection/creation and management, data rights (ownership, copyright, access, privacy etc) and data curation, which this unit will also address.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit students will have:
A knowledge and understanding of:

• the major objectives of database technology;
• the relational model for databases and competing models;
• the phases of the database development life cycle and their correspondence to the phases of the system development lifecycle;
• the issues related to data creation and management, data rights and data curation;
• the techniques and tools to design and implement a database suitable for an information system;
• a database retrieval and manipulation language;
• methods to put in place physical structures to permit efficient operation of a database;
• the role of a database administrator.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• appreciate the privacy issues relating to storage of data in a database;
• practice ethical behaviour when developing, implementing and using a database.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%

Chief examiner(s)

Mr Lindsay Smith

Contact hours

2 hrs lectures/wk, 2 hrs laboratories/wk

Prohibitions

BUS3112, CPE2005, CSE2132, CSE2138, CSE2316, CSE3180, CSE3316, FIT2010, GCO2815, IMS1907, IMS2112, MMS2801

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit1004/