Zicklin School of Business - Baruch College
City University of New York

Database Management Systems
CIS 3400 (formerly CIS 4300)

This is the home page for the Database Management Systems course at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY.

Course Coordinator

Dr. Richard Holowczak
Office: Wasserman Trading Floor / Subotnick Financial Services Center
Phone: 646 - 312 - 1544
Fax: 646 - 312 - 1541
E-Mail: richard_holowczak@baruch.cuny.edu (Preferred)
Course WWW : http://cisnet.baruch.cuny.edu/holowczak/classes/3400/

E-Mail is the preferred manner of communication.

Course Objectives

The main objective of this course is to provide students with the background to design, implement, and use database management systems.
Topics Include:

  • Evolution of database management systems
  • Entity Relationship Modeling and Design
  • Relational Data Model and Relational Algebra
  • Structured Query Language
  • Transaction Processing, Concurrency Control and Recovery
  • Client Server and Distributed databases
    Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the skills to analyze business requirements and produce a viable model and implementation of a database to meet such requirements.

    Course Home Page Contents

    Those of you who are new to the World Wide Web or who would like to learn more about the Internet and Internet tools, please visit the Computer Network Applications home page.

    A gentle introduction to programming, logic and graph theory can be found here (a work still in progress): http://cisnet.baruch.cuny.edu/holowczak/classes/programming/

    Please Note: No Grades, Exams or Student Information are maintained at this site, or on any system accessible via the Internet.

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