Re: Materials for an Advanced Database course

From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:11:55 -0600
Message-ID: <Xns9309907377971pingottpingottbah_at_216.166.71.233>


71062.1056_at_compuserve.com (--CELKO--) wrote in news:c0d87ec0.0301200927.21d6ccd5_at_posting.google.com:

>>> Rather than direction as to material, I'll give you some idea as to

> the challenges I face in database design. A good course would provide
> solutions to these. <<
>
> One of the goals for North Face Learning is to have a project driven
> cirriculum. We are talking about to industry, telling them we have
> a undergraduate/graduate degree program for their people and that
> part of the course work can a small team project at the company.
> Hopefully, we will start classes before the end of the year.

With that in mind, I would balance anything taught against the realities of large system maintenance and performance. A pure solution may unfortunately be operationally impractical to implement.

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Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
http://www.hpdbe.com
Received on Mon Jan 20 2003 - 22:11:55 CET

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