Study Programmes 2015-2016
INFO0009-2  
Database (general organisation) (partim)
Duration :
25h Th, 25h Pr
Number of credits :
Bachelor in geography : general5
Bachelor in geography : general5
Master in geography : general (120 ECTS)5
Master in geography : geomatics and surveying (120 ECTS)5
Master in geography : general (60 ECTS)5
Lecturer :
Pierre Wolper
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
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.
Learning outcomes of the course :
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.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
Familiarity with programming.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Problems on the lecture material; project involving setting up a database and accessing it through a web interface.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
2nd semester- face-to-face
Recommended or required readings :
Slides available on the course web site
Assessment methods and criteria :
project grade (30%), written exam (no oral exam)
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
More informlation about this course can be found at http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~pw/cours/bd.html
Contacts :
Teacher : P. Wolper Tel.: 04 3662099 e-mail: Pierre.Wolper@ulg.ac.be