Duration
25h Th, 25h Pr
Number of credits
Lecturer
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
Learning unit 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 learning unit
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.: 04 366 93 13 e-mail: Pierre.Wolper@ulg.ac.be Assistants: Samuel Hiard, Remy Vandaele