CENTER FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

TOWSON UNIVERSITY

Course Number: CAIT 732

Course Title: Advanced Database Management Systems

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite: CAIT 632

Course Description: This course emphasizes advanced topics in database management systems. Topics include: query processing, transaction processing, concurrency and recovery techniques, advanced database models, object-oriented databases, object-relational databases, Web databases, distributed databases, Data warehousing and OLAP.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course students should have a clear understanding of:

1. the advanced topics in database management systems;

2. the distributed database management systems and emerging data models;

3. the need for data warehouses and OLAP;

4. the Web based database applications and management systems;