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cs608 - principles of database systems

Database management system overview. Data independence and abstraction. Physical database organization, and access methods. Data models, the Entity-Relationship model, the network, hierarchical and relational models. Relational Database design, functional dependencies and normalization. Query processing and optimization. Concurrency control and recovery. Security and integrity. Distributed and Object-oriented databases.

Prerequisite: CS308 or permission of instructor, CS600