CP2016 - Data Management and Handling

Credit points:	03
Year:	2010
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	School of Business

This subject is a detailed examination of the issues involved in the administration of an enterprise database system including concurrency control, security, backup and recovery, physical storage management, associated data structures, algorithms and related programming tasks, and software development for reporting and data entry.

Learning Outcomes

• understand database system architecture;
• understand essential administrative tasks associated with maintaining an enterprise level database system;
• explain different concurrency control protocols;
• evaluate and compare algorithms and fundamental data structures;
• control and configure physical storage for an enterprise level database system.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends.

Prerequisites:	CP1300 AND CP1500
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	CP2503 CP2001

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 25-Mar-2010
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Ickjai Lee
Lecturer:	Mr Peter Phillips.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials 24 hours practicals - One two-hour practical each week starting in week 2.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50% - 60%); other exams (10% - 20%); assignments (20% - 40%).
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52
Census Date 22-Jul-2010
Coordinator:	Mr Peter Phillips, Assoc. Professor Ickjai Lee
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials 24 hours practicals - One two-hour practical each week starting in week 2.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50% - 60%); other exams (10% - 20%); assignments (20% - 40%).

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