MIS 325

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MIS 325

• Introductory Database
• Design and Implementation

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Course Topics

• Database Design
• Database Theory
• Database Implementation
• Client/Server Issues (distributed design)
• Maintainability Issues
• Security Issues
• User Interface Issues

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Software Tools

• Visio
• SQL (Microsoft SQL Server)
• Visual Basic
• ASP
• HTML

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Course Resources

• Suggested textbook
• Readings will be provided
• www.utexas.edu/courses/mis325
• Slides
• Sample code
• Assignments
• FAQs and FYIs

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Grading Policy

• Homework Quizzes (40)
• September 30th Exam (20)
• Basic concepts, DB design, etc
• October 28th Exam (20)
• SQL
• Mod Lab
• December 2nd Exam (20)
• Web interface
• Mod Lab

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A little bit about you

• Female 49
• Male 51
• Fr-So 12
• Junior 53
• Senior 35

• MIS 33
• Acc 15
• Fin 14
• Mkt 9
• Undec 14
• Other 15

• 10 2nd non-CBA major
• 5 Teaching certificate

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A little bit about your photo
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Next Time

• Mote's Notes Intro to Relational Databases
• Stephens Plew Chapter 1
• Murach Textbook Chapter 1 (pages 3-21)
• Think about the organization scheme for MIS 325
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Assignment (Not Graded)