Module/Course Description

Course Title: Database Systems

Course Code: UU-COM-711-ZM

Programme:

Credits: 25.00

Course Description:

Rationale
The main objective of the course is to provide a critical study of theory and research related to advanced topic areas of Databases. Topic areas include: Object-oriented databases and the ODMG model, Object-relational databases, SQL3, database administration (security, recovery, optimization), Web databases, web programming and PhP, XML, Distributed Databases, NOSQL Systems and Big Data, Active, temporal, spatial databases, databases, multimedia databases, graphical query languages, Data mining and data warehousing, and OLAP.

Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course students will be expected to:

(i) Critically compare and evaluate database models and database systems.
(ii) Design and develop web database applications using commercially available database systems.
(iii) Enhance and fine-tune database applications with regards to security, authorization and optimization.
(iv) Critically assess post-relational database models and especially the object-relational database model, standards and languages.
(v) Develop advanced queries using the SQL language.
(vi) Research in state-of-the art areas in databases systems.

Prerequisites: UU-Msc-IND100-ZM, UU-FNT-203-ZM, UU-COM-713-ZM, UU-COM-714-ZM, UU-COM-715-ZM

Prerequisites Categories: -

Typical Module duration: 7.0 Week(s)

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