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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

11737 (v.3) Designing Database Systems 502

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Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: School of Information Systems
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 5924 (v.3) Business Computing 573 or any previous version
AND
10997 (v.3) Database Systems 201 or any previous version
AND
305474 (v.2) Database 200 or any previous version
Syllabus: Concepts and principles of relational database modelling and design, creation of a relational database from a conceptual (entity relationship) model, normalisation, data and database integrity, design and definition of database structures (tables, columns, indexes and views), use of structured query language (SQL) to interface with a database, and transaction analysis.
Field of Education: 020300 Information Systems (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2011 Sydney Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External