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Spring 2026 Practice Study Observation Lecture Distance Learning Upper Division
File organization and index structures; object-oriented database languages; the relational database model with introductions to SQL and DBMS; hierarchical models and network models with introductions to HDDL, HDML, and DBTG Codasyl; data mining; data warehousing; database connectivity; distributed databases; the client/server paradigm; middleware, including ODBC, JDBC, CORBA, and MOM.
Learning Outcomes1Learn about different data models (relational, graph, and document) used in different database systems.
2Learn how to pose complex database queries in SQL and NoSQL languages as well as theoretical query languages.
3Gain an introductory background in indexing.
4Learn about transactions and concurrency control.
5Differentiate between OLTP and OLAP applications.
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