Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| Database (general organisation) | ||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th, 25h Pr, 25h Proj. | ||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Pierre Wolper | ||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | ||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester | ||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||
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Course contents :
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| Introduction to databases and to information modelling. Entity-Relationship model. Relational databases and query languages. Dependency theory and relational database schema design. Physical data organisation and implementation of the relational model. Transaction management. Deductive and object-oriented databases, data warehouses, XML. | ||
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The objective of this course is to acquire the knowledge necessary to implement information systems build around a database. At the end of the course, the student will be able to build an application exploiting a database and will have a good knowledge of the properties of database management systems. | ||
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| Familiarity with programming. | ||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Problems on the lecture material; project involving setting up a database and accessing it through a web interface. | ||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| 2nd semester- face-to-face | ||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Slides available on the course web site | ||
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| project grade (30%), written exam (no oral exam). | ||
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| More informlation about this course can be found at http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~pw/cours/bd.html | ||
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Contacts :
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| Teacher : P. Wolper Tel.: 04 3662099 e-mail: Pierre.Wolper@ulg.ac.be | ||