Course description: CS 387 prepares you to face the real world of databases applications and development. It presents the fundamental concepts of database design. It provides a study of data models, data normalization; data description languages and their design and form, query facilities including relational algebra and query functions. It will focus on the SQL query language. But this class is more than a SQL programming class.

Goals: By the end of this course, students will be able to design and implement a database and will have some practices in implementing transactions. This course contains a part on security.

Tools: Oracle, SQL, XML, JDBC.

General Information: CS387 is a 3-credit course. Prerequisite is a grade of "C" or better in CS 232 and CS 242.