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Business Data Management

Course (UG/PG)

Undergraduate

Offering Unit/Department

Course Description

By precisely documenting, consistently updating, and efficiently tracking data, organizations can tackle challenges and harness the vast potential offered by this sector. Database management systems play a vital and essential role in both the creation and administration of data, serving as critical components for the effective operation and governance of data.This course will cover the fundamentals of relational database theory, important data management concepts such as data modelling, database design, and database implementation in current business information systems.Students are expected to apply knowledge learned in the classroom to solve many problems based upon real-life business scenarios, while gaining hands-on experiences in designing, implementing, and managing database systems. The students will be given hands-on class activities to enable a problembased learning environment.

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to:
• Understand the data requirements in various business domains
• Understand the role of databases in integrating various business functions in an organization
• Understand data modelling, conceptual, logical and physical database design
• Apply the fundamental techniques of data modelling to various scenarios
• Query a database using Structured Query Language (SQL)
• Gain familiarity with a commercial database tool (MySQL)
• Be aware of common issues of business database design and maintenance

Discipline-Specific Competencies

Data Design, Design Thinking Practice, Software Design

SMU Graduate Learning Outcomes

Disciplinary knowledge, Critical thinking & problem solving, Collaboration & leadership, Communication

Grading Basis

GRD - Graded