MIS 431 Database Management Systems
A comprehensive beginning course on the Relational Database System covering three major areas: industry trends, relational database theory, and database applications. Industry trends addresses the major vendor database engines, CASE tools, industry leaders and industry direction. Database theory includes RDBMS structure, normalization, SQL (Structured Query Language), data modeling, and design. Database applications analyzes the distributed databases, data warehousing, data marts, data mining, multimedia, object and intelligent databases. Not open to students with previous credit for MBU 431. Prerequisite: MIS 105.