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Educational levels in teaching
databases
Patrizia Poščić, [email protected]
Danijela Subotić, [email protected]
The presentation is about:
• Educational levels through several database
courses which are being held in the Department of
Informatics’ undergraduate (bachelor) and graduate
(master) programs
• Courses:
– Introduction to Databases
– Databases
– Selected Topics in Databases
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Introduction to Databases
• The course is held on the second year of
undergraduate program (3rd semester)
• The course consists of theoretical lectures and
practical exercises on the computer
• 2+2, 5 ECTS
• 53 students enroled in 2011/2012
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Introduction to Databases
• In the lectures students can learn:
– basic definitions and concepts of databases,
– entity-relationship model, relational model and
relational algebra,
– dependencies in relational database
– normalization
– other types of databases
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Introduction to Databases
• In the exercises students can learn basics of SQL
programming language (in Oracle)
• During the semester through practical
assignments students learn how to:
– create database, create and alter tables in the
database, insert-update-delete data, create and work
with indexes, constraints, roles and views
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Introduction to Databases
• Also students learn how to run queries against one
or multiple tables:
– conditions, logical operators, grouping and sorting the
results, aggregate, arithmetic and string functions,
transactions,
– joins,
– SQL*Plus.
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Databases
• The course is held on the second year of
undergraduate program (4th semester)
• The course consists of theoretical lectures and
practical exercises on the computer
• 2+2, 5 ECTS
• 43 students enroled in 2011/2012
• The main objective of the course is to train students
to work independently with relational databases
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Databases
• In this course students can use all the knowledge
about databases (specifically, modeling and
database design) which they acquired last semester
• In the lectures students can learn:
– more about database security and innovations in the area
of databases
– also, students work in pairs or small groups (up to 4
students) on a essay with preferred topic
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Databases
• In the exercises students can learn:
– how to build standalone database and business
application based on the relational and entity-relationship
data model in a Clarion programming tool
– at the end of the semester, students are required to
develop their own application based on a relational
database
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Databases
Example of
entityrelationship
model
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Databases
Example of business
application created
during practical
exercises
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Selected Topics in Databases
• The course is held on the first year of graduate
programs Business informatics (mandatory) and
Information and communication systems (elective)
• The course consists of theoretical lectures and
practical exercises on the computer
• 2+2, 6 ECTS
• 15 students enroled in 2011/2012
• The course is new and still in development
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Selected Topics in Databases
• In the lectures students can:
– become familiar with the concept of business intelligence
and ERP systems,
– learn the basics of dimensional modeling and data
warehousing
– learn the basic concepts of OLAP systems (Online
Analytical processing) and ETL processes
– learn the basic concepts of data mining
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Selected Topics in Databases
• In the exercises students can learn how to:
– upgrade and expand previously acquired knowledge of
SQL programming language, with complex SQL*Plus
report generating and PL/SQL procedural extension
language
– work with several OLAP tools (Microstrategy and Palo for
now) in order to generate reports for business decisionmaking
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Selected Topics in Databases
• In the future:
– we plan to acquire Oracle Warehouse builder
• students can also learn how to build their own data
warehouse (from existing relational database)
• Students can generate business reports in selected
OLAP tool which is connected with their own data
warehouse
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Selected Topics in Databases
Dimensional
model – star
schema
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Some numbers …
2011/2012
IDB
DB
STDB
Number of students
53
43
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Successfully passed
61,5%
89,5%
65%
3,1
4,3
3,6
Average grade
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Conclusion
• Our goal is to present students with a compact set
of knowledge in the field of databases
• Upgrade and development of knowledge through
the educational process
• This knowledge gives them great flexibility and
makes them more competitive on the market
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Thank You for your attention!