Course Details
16:198:539 - Database Management Systems
- Course Number: 16:198:539
- Course Type: Graduate
- Semester 1: Fall | Spring
- Credits: 3
- Description:
Implementing components of relational database systems (DBMS): record storage, indexing structures, query evaluation, joins algorithms, query optimization. Understanding and administering a DBMS: security, concurrency control and crash recovery. Tuning DBMS for performance. Recent advances in data management : text-based information retrieval, web search, cloud computing, column store systems. This class focuses on data management from a database administrator's, or implementer's, perspective.
This course is suitable for entry level M.Sc. Students who has not taken a solid undergraduate database courses.
This course counts as category B for M.Sc. degree requirement. This course does NOT count as category B for Ph.D. students
- M.S. Course Category: Data Storage and Retrieval
- Category: B (M.S.)
- Expected Work: Homework and programming assignments.
- Learning Goals:
Targeting M.Sc. students in Computer Science
- will be prepared to contribute to a rapidly changing field by acquiring a thorough grounding in the core principles and foundations of computer science (e.g., techniques of program design, creation, and testing; key aspects of computer hardware; algorithmic principles).
- will acquire a deeper understanding on (elective) topics of more specialized interest, and be able to critically review, assess, and communicate current developments in the field.
-will be prepared for the next step in their careers, for example, by having done a research project (for those headed to Ph. D. program), a programming project (for those going into the software industry), or some sort of business plan (for those going into startups).
