An emphasis will be placed on the social, technological and organizational needs in database design. Course topics include: entity-relationship models, relational database models, normalization, ...

This data model (i.e. "schema design,") is useful for developing applications around any restricted resource system, not just e-commerce systems.

Analyzes design of data systems, including data stored in file systems, database management systems and physical data organizations. Studies calculus of data models, query languages, concurrency and ...