Program Overview

INF 385M: Database Management

Overview

The INF 385M: Database Management course is offered in the Spring Term 2026, with the mode of delivery being in-person. The instructor for this course is Shounak Roychowdhury.

Program Details

• Program: MSIS/PhD
• Unique ID: 28915
• Day: Wednesday
• Start Time: 12:00 pm
• End Time: 3:00 pm
• Building: UTA
• Room: 1.208

Catalog Description

Principles and practices of database management and database design. Discussion and implementation of a database. Application life cycle, data dictionaries, relational database design, SQL queries, reports and other interfaces to database data, and documentation. Students work on individual and group projects.

Instructor Description

Database is the foundation of Data Science. It provides the unique design to store, retrieve, and manage data. Data become the essential gas to power the generative AI. How to model data, encode context, enforce business rules, and achieve efficiency are critical for database design. This course provides the introductory understanding of relational database design with the focus on three parts. The first part is centered around the database design lifecycle by introducing business rules, ER diagram, normalization, and UML chart. The second part talks about database query language SQL by explaining concepts and providing examples. The third part gives you the forward introduction of XML database which is the commonly used NoSQL database. The learning content will be delivered in the variety of exercises including lectures, tutorials, class activities, individual assignments, group assignments, and group projects. This course empathizes peer learning, hands-on practices, forward exploring, and risk taking.

Prerequisites

• Graduate Standing.

Restrictions

Enrollment in Information Studies (INF) courses is restricted to graduate students in the School of Information through registration periods 1 and 2, with outside students only being accepted during period 3.