Fall 2024 Decision, Risk & Operations Management B8138 section H02

Intro to Databases for Busines

Intro to Databases for Bu

Call Number 16957
Day & Time
Location
R 6:00pm-7:30pm
440 Kravis Hall
Points 1.5
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Mattan Griffel
Type LECTURE
Course Description We don’t think about databases much, right? At least not when they’re working right. But they’re all around us. They’re in every product we use. And when they don’t work (think about the iCloud, LinkedIn, or Ashley Madison data breaches in which hundreds of millions of emails and passwords were exposed) the consequences can be extreme.

Every modern company stores their data in a database (it’s like a really big version of Excel), and if you want to analyze the data, you may be expected to know how to access it yourself. In fact, at many companies are requiring even their business leaders to have an understanding of databases. At the very least, knowing how to set up and interact with databases will improve your ability to GSD (get stuff done), strengthen your understanding of how technology works, and make you less of a pain for developers to work with.

In this class, we’ll explore basic SQL (the most common database language) for business analytics. At the end of the course, students should have a deeper understanding of how databases work, how they fit into the general technology stack, how to connect to databases, and know how to browse and exporting data from databases.
Web Site Vergil
Department Decision, Risk and Operations
Enrollment 73 students (74 max) as of 11:06AM Saturday, December 7, 2024
Subject Decision, Risk & Operations Management
Number B8138
Section H02
Division School of Business
Open To Business, Journalism
Section key 20243DROM8138BH02