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CIS 330: Applied Database Systems
Instructor: Johannes Gehrke
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/johannes
Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:55-4:10pm
What is the technology behind ebay's website?
How does Wal-Mart manage its 200 TB data warehouse?
How can we link together hundreds of biological databases into one common virtual data repository?
How does Amazon recommend new books for you?
How can you mine nuggets of information in Wegman's transaction database?
This course introduces database systems with a focus on how to
use them in practice. The course will give an overview of the
capabilities of modern database systems, and how to build
database-backed applications. Topics covered include the
relational model, SQL, transactions, database design and tuning,
three-tier architectures, web data management with XML,
service-oriented architectures, data mining, and data warehousing.
The course will include hands-on exercises using a commercial database
system and a student-selected web-database project.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Java and some knowledge of data structures
such as CS211 or equivalent. Can be used towards the concentration/minor in
Information Science: www.cis.cornell.edu/infoscience
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