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Old 11-03-11, 17:52
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Lightbulb The optimal database degree program

Imagine yourself being responsible for creating the curriculum for a degree program called Databases.

What subjects? What lectures? How would you structure the optimal curriculum?

Only one condition: it has got to be vendor-neutral.
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Old 11-03-11, 18:22
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What value am I proposing to provide to my students? Staying "vendor neutral" means you're never actually touching a database, so I'm not sure who this degree is for.
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Old 11-03-11, 18:43
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- Inadequate lecture title: PL/SQL or T-SQL.

+ Adequate lecture title: Procedural programming for database development.

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Another adequate suggestion would be Databases and the Relational Model, altough Edgar Codd published his famous paper during his time at IBM research.
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Old 11-04-11, 15:49
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What flavor of degree? Is this a college program, a practical program, an employer sponsored program? That will make considerable difference in what areas get what level of focus. It will also make a lot of difference in naming, since they all use different nomenclature and sometimes use the same word with significantly different meaning.

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Old 11-05-11, 04:42
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Let's say the imaginary college offers a bachelor and a consecutive master course.
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Old 11-07-11, 08:34
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great database guys and girls are not trained. they are born that way.
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