CSC 240 -- Database Management Systems

Course Description: Components of data base systems, data base models: entity-relationship, relational, hierarchical, network; normalization, integrity, relational algebra, query languages, system security, distributed data-bases, social and ethical concerns. Implementation of case studies using a relational DBMS.

Margaret McCoey -- Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Email Address: mailto:mccoey@lasalle.edu
Phone: 215-951-1136
Class Time: MWF 9-10 in Olney 200
Office Hours: MW 10-11:30 and by appointment
Office: Olney 128

Mailing Address: La Salle University, 1900 W. Olney Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19141

Database Systems: Design, Implementation & Management by Peter Rob and Carlos Coronel
Publisher: Thomson Course Technology
ISBN: 1-4239-0201-7

Supplemental Reading: On reserve in the Library
Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century by Simson Garfinkel
Publisher: O'Reilly -- This book is available in the library and ONLINE.
ISBN: 0-596-00105-3