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This is the home page for CIS 109, your gateway to most resources for this course. It provides information regarding course syllabus, course guidelines, assignments, projects, lab, links to other useful sites.  Click any of the topics in the navigation bar at the top of this page  to find out more about it.  

CIS 109 is an introductory course in data modeling, file management and database management systems (DBMS). It is a core course in the Information Sciences & Technology (IS&T) program in the CIS Department of the College of Science and Technology. It is a 4 credit hours course comprising of 3 hours lecture and 2 hours laboratory with a pre-requisite of a programming course (CIS 81).

Students taking the course, will need a password to gain access to the lecture notes.   

Databases are today an integral part of most information systems. In this course we will develop an understanding of how data is collected, organized, used and managed in information systems. The course covers both the traditional file management methods and database management systems.

One focus of the course is on conceptual modeling using the entity-relationship and class diagram models.  The conceptual model will provide the foundation for developing a logical and physical model of the database.  We will focus on the relational database model and see how the logical model of the database is implemented in a Database Management System. CASE tools are used in the Lab to develop the various models.

We will use both Microsoft Access (2000) and Oracle as the Database Management System (DBMS) to develop simple information systems. This will involve designing and implementing tables, creating switchboard, forms, queries and reports to support to simple business process.

There will be a number of other database management topics covered in the course ranging from how to process data from databases using SQL, management database systems to current topics such as Data Warehousing.

Whereever you are on the CIS 109 website, to get back to this page, just click Home on the navigation bar the current page (usually in gray). 

This web resource will be used in conjunction with Temple's web conferencing, BlackBoard. You will need a separate password to access it. To get to BlackBoard click here.

For general information about the CIS Department click on  www.cis.temple.edu

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Friday, February 06, 2004