Study of the theory and practice of Data Bases. Topics include independence, security, integrity, consistency, data sharing, and redundancy control. Practical problems are presented and developed using a self contained query language. Systems Analysis and Design 4 credits. The fundamentals of the systems life cycle.
Job requests through the preliminary investigation.
Analysis of the current system through design of the new system are covered. This course is designed as a continuation of CPST 278. A simple high level programming interface is provided to allow application programs to request facilities such as task and terminal information, formatting of data to terminals, and interface to systems service programs. Continuation from Systems Analysis and Design. Program development, coding, and testing the system.