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Databases II - INF3703

Under Graduate Degree,Diploma Year module NQF level: 7 Credits: 12
Module presented in English Module presented online
Pre-requisite: ICT2621 or ICT2622 or INF2603
Purpose: The purpose of the module is to equip students with adequate knowledge and competencies to design, implement, and manage centralized and distributed database systems. Students registered for this module are introduced to the database development processes, database administration roles and responsibilities, stages of database design, database transactions, database performance tuning, distributed database concepts, database security, distributed databases within the cloud environment, decision support systems, and strategies for interacting with databases through the web. This module provides fundamental and required knowledge, which will support further studies and applications in the sector of Computer Science and Information systems, in the field of Database Management Systems as part of either Bachelor of Science degree in Computing or Informatics or the Bachelor of Commerce degree with Informatics as major. These competencies therefore contribute to the development of competitive Information Technology practitioners who have strong technical skills of designing, implementing and managing single and distributed database systems.