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{{ClassPage|CMSC 424: Database Design|Amol Deshpande|http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2015/cmsc424/|Students are introduced to database systems and motivates the database approach as a mechanism for modeling the real world. An in-depth coverage of the relational model, logical database design, query languages, and other database concepts including query optimization, concurrency control; transaction management, and log based crash recovery. Distributed and Web database architectures are also discussed. |6 hours|Python, SQL, maybe Ruby-on-Rails (although I plan to change that over to some Python equivalent for next Fall)|Outside of the pre-requisites, nothing specific is recommended. More programming experience always helps of course.|See the course webpage for Fall 2015. |0201 TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm CSI 3117}}