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CP5804 - Database Systems
| Credit points: | 3 |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | College of Science and Engineering |
The subject will provide an introduction to the principles and concepts of database systems and their importance in data science. The relational model and various competing models for database, and a database query language are introduced and applied. Through this subject students will develop skills in techniques and tools to model, design and implement a database system using SQL.
Learning Outcomes
- critically appraise database and database management systems, their features and rationale;
- formulate queries using a database query language;
- develop a database model using the entity-relationship model;
- describe and apply the techniques of normalisation;
- construct a database design to a database management system.
Subject Assessment
- assignments (60%)
- computational laboratories/log book (25%)
- sas coursework (15%).
Availabilities |
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| External, Study Period 86 | |
| Census Date 05-Nov-2020 | |
| Workload expectations: |
The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.
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| Method of Delivery: | WWW - LearnJCU |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 82 | |
| Census Date 19-Mar-2020 | |
| Workload expectations: |
The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.
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| JCU Online, External, Study Period 82 | |
| Census Date 19-Mar-2020 | |
| Workload expectations: |
The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.
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| Method of Delivery: | Online - JCU |
| JCU Online, External, Study Period 86 | |
| Census Date 05-Nov-2020 | |
| Workload expectations: |
The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.
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| Method of Delivery: | Online - JCU |
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