Databases and Web

The course learning objective is to illustrate the main data management concepts and methodologies, focusing in particular on relational databases, the SQL language, and their role in Web architectures. Also, it has the objective to provide a hands-on experience to acquire the ability to implement a Web portal that dynamically gets data by querying a relational DBMS.

The students are expected to understand the relevance of appropriate data representation and management. They will learn how to design a relational DB, and how to use SQL to query and manage the data. By the hands-on experience they will also learn how to implement a dynamic Web site that acquires data by querying a relational DBMS.