| Instructor | Contact |
|---|---|
| Instructor | Torna Omar Soro, PhD (Economics), MS(Computer Science) |
| torna.soro "at" umb "dot" edu | |
| Office | McCormack Building, 3rd Floor, Room 0201-32 |
| Phone | TBA |
| Web | www.cs.umb.edu/~tsoro/ |
CS403: Introduction to Modern Database Systems
Though we may not recognize them in our everyday activities, databases are everywhere.
They are hidden behind your online banking profile, airline reservation systems, medical records,
and even employment records. This course will provide students with a general overview of databases,
introducing you to database history, modern database systems, the different models used to design a
database, and Structured Query Language (SQL), which is the standard language used to access and
manipulate databases. Many of the principles of database systems carry to other areas in computer science,
especially operating systems. Databases are often thought of as one of the core computer science topics
since many other areas in the discipline have been derived from this area.
SQL is a standard language for storing, manipulating and retrieving data in databases.
Our SQL tutorial will teach you how to use SQL in: MySQL, SQL Server, MS Access, Oracle, Sybase, Informix,
Postgres, and other database systems.