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2026-2027 Preliminary Online Catalog 
    
2026-2027 Preliminary Online Catalog

CST 204 - Database Management Systems


This course concentrates on the principles, design, implementation, maintenance, and applications of database management systems. Topics include security, privacy, normalization, data modeling, data validation, user forms, reports, and Web connectivity. The structured query language, SQL, will be used to process an industry-standard relational database management system.
Prerequisite(s): CST 101 , or CST 130 , or CST 161  
3 lecture hours per week
3 credit hours