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CIS 523 -- Data Processing and Database Management

Course Description: Students will study database system and data structures including architecture and data languages. They will investigate logical and physical database design. The course will focus on database models using entity-relationship diagrams and normalization for relational databases. Students will study issues involving data integrity. Students will use query languages including SQL and relational algebra. Students will perform analysis and evaluation of database designs, in relation to the strategic mission of a project. Specific consideration of social, ethical issues and privacy of data in database development. The course will use case studies and a relational database project implementation.

Margaret McCoey -- Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Email Address: mccoey@lasalle.edu
Mailing Address: La Salle University, 1900 W. Olney Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19141
Phone: 215-951-1136
Office: Olney Hall Room 128

Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation and Management by Thomas Connolly and Carolyn Begg
Addison Wesley ISBN 0-321-21025-5