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Database Analysis and Design

Unit code: HIT6402

Credit points12.5 Credit Points
Duration1 Semester or equivalent
Contact hours48 Hours
CampusHawthorn
Prerequisites
Nil. Preclusion: HIT6016 Database 1
CorequisitesNil

Aims and objectives

Students who complete this unit of study should be able to:

  • Describe the steps involved in database design and database systems development.
  • Explain the fundamentals of the relational data model.
  • Write SQL to define, query and manipulate a database.
  • Use conceptual data analysis methods to produce and document a logical data model.
  • Design and generate a simple inquiry and update system using a range of commercial DBMS tools.

Teaching methods

Lecture (24 hrs), Tutorial (12 hrs) and Tutorial (labs) (12 hrs)

Assessment

Group Assignment, Individual Assignment, test, examination

Content

  • Information in the organisation and business rules
  • DBMS terminology and concepts
  • The relational data model
  • Structured Query Language
  • Entity relational analysis
  • Normalisation of data
  • Data integrity
  • Data warehousing

References

Hoffer, JA, Prescott, MB & McFadden, FR, Modern Database Management, 7th edn, Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 2005.

Watson, RT, Data Management: Databases and Organizations, NY, Wiley, 2004.

Connolly T & Begg C (2007)., Database Systems, A Practical Approach…", Sixth Edition,
AddisonWesley.

Rob P. & Coronel C (2008) Database Systems, Eigth Edition, Thomson