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Database Analysis and Design
Postgraduate | SWI-INF60009 | 2019
Course information for 2019 intake
Detect ways to critically manage data from external and internal sources, including the cloud and social networks. Devise effective strategies of using, storing and recovering data. Use modelling tools to assess, design and organise data structure.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- -
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Database Analysis and Design
About this subject
Students who successfully complete this subject will be able to:
Critically evaluate data and database definitions and concepts
Develop novel solutions to practical data management challenges using modern database tools and data modelling techniques
Critically explore the organisational, societal, and technical impact of big data, unstructured data, and modern data analytics tools on database system design and management
- Data and database fundamentals and conventions
- Data management including SQL
- Data modelling including ERD
- Data warehousing, big data, and data normalisation
- Business intelligence and data analytics
- Semi-structured and unstructured data storage
- Critical design and application of databases in organisations
This subject challenges participants to critically explore modern database design and application in contemporary society. After delivering the fundamental principles and techniques required for modern database management, the unit challenges participant’s to develop innovative database solutions to practical problems, through novel application of data modelling techniques, and commercial and open-source database tools. The opportunities, challenges, and implications of big data, social media, data analytics, and unstructured data on conventional database systems are explored in parallel.
Students are expected to review their design in the context of current trends as articulated in the academic literature.
- Portfolio (100%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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