FIRST OPPORTUNITY

In the FIRST OPPORTUNITY, students that do not take the written exam will obtain a grade of "Non presentado" (Absent).
According to the UDC regulations, if a student passes the course in the FIRST OPPORTUNITY, he/she will not be able to be evaluated in the SECOND OPPORTUNITY in order to improve his/her grade.
If a student fails the course in the FIRST OPPORTUNITY, he/she can retake the SQL language test, the written exam or both in the SECOND OPPORTUNITY.

SECOND OPPORTUNITY

In the SECOND OPPORTUNITY, students that do not re-take any of the tests (written test and/or SQL language test) will obtain a grade of "Non presentado" ("Absent").
If a student decides to retake a test, the final grade for that test will be the one obtained during the second opportunity (which can be higher or lower than the one obtained in the first opportunity).
If a student decides to not retake one of the two tests, he/she will keep the grade for that test obtained in the first opportunity.

COPYING AND/OR PLAGIARISM

Fraudulent performance of the tests or assessment activities, once verified, will be penalized in accordance with the provisions of Article 14 of the Regulations for assessment, review and claim of grades for bachelor's and master's studies at UDC.

ACADEMIC DISPENSATION

Students officially enrolled part-time who have been granted an official dispensation from attending classes, as stipulated in the regulations of this University, will be able to do (and submit) all (or part) of the practices by their own. In the case that the activities require specific equipment, or are scheduled for a specific date and time, a viable alternative will be provided, where possible, at their request.

ADVANCED OPPORTUNITY

The assessment for the advanced opportunity will consist of a written exam that will compute for the 100% of the grade.

Learning outcomes	Study programme competences
Knowledge and understanding of the concepts, principles, and basic theories of relational databases.	A18	B3	C7
Ability to model and design relational databases in order to allow the storage of the information needed for specific application domains, taking special care with the integrity of the data and the needs of the organization that will use the database.	A18	B1 B3 B4	C3 C6
Ability to manage and use relational databases by executing SQL statements.	A18 A19	B1 B3	C3 C7

Topic	Sub-topic
Relational databases	SQL: advanced queries, DDL, views
Database design	Design problems (anomalies) Design phases Normalization Conceptual design ER to relational model translation
File systems	Files Indexes
Concurrency and fail recovery	Problems due to concurrency and failures Transactions Recovery techniques Concurrency control techniques

Methodologies / tests	Competencies	Ordinary class hours	Student’s personal work hours	Total hours
Guest lecture / keynote speech	A18 A19 C6 C7	22	22	44
Problem solving	A18 B1 B3 C6	22	33	55
Laboratory practice	A18 A19 B1 B3 B4 C3 C6	17	25.5	42.5
Mixed objective/subjective test	A18 B1 B3 C6	3	4.5	7.5

Personalized attention		1	0	1

(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies	Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech	During these lectures the fundamental contents of the subject will be exposed. They are devoted to show objectives, motivation, concept development, utility, and summary.
Problem solving	Problem solving lectures where a problem to solve is exposed. First, the student try to solve the problem for a while, considering different aspects to solve it. Finally, the problem is solved, showing the typical errors of the solutions provided by the students.
Laboratory practice	In laboratory classes, teachers present the knowledge needed to acquire the proposed skills, and students will do exercises that will lead them to develop their operative skills. During these classes, students will also make the design and implementation of a relational database. Each student shall develop it alone, with some assistance from the teacher.
Mixed objective/subjective test	Face-to-face tests to be done in a limited time, in which both theoretical and practical knowledge is evaluated.

Methodologies	Competencies	Description	Qualification
Mixed objective/subjective test	A18 B1 B3 C6	Both at the FIRST OPPORTUNITY and at the SECOND OPPORTUNITY, for passing the course it is necessary to pass a conventional written exam which will represent 60% of the global grade. To pass the course globally it is necessary to obtain in the written exam a minimum grade of 3 (over 6). If that minimum grade is not achieved, the maximum global grade will not exceed 4.5 (and therefore the course will be failed) Maximum grade: 6 points Minimum grade to pass the course: 3 (over 6)	60
Laboratory practice	A18 A19 B1 B3 B4 C3 C6	For the FIRST OPPORTUNITY: -SQL language test (maximum grade 2 pt). -Relational database design and implementation project (maximum grade 2 pt). For the SECOND OPPORTUNITY: -SQL language test (maximum grade 2 pt). -The grade corresponding to the database design and implementation project is unrecoverable. The grade from the first opportunity is kept.	40

Assessment comments
FIRST OPPORTUNITY In the FIRST OPPORTUNITY, students that do not take the written exam will obtain a grade of "Non presentado" (Absent). According to the UDC regulations, if a student passes the course in the FIRST OPPORTUNITY, he/she will not be able to be evaluated in the SECOND OPPORTUNITY in order to improve his/her grade. If a student fails the course in the FIRST OPPORTUNITY, he/she can retake the SQL language test, the written exam or both in the SECOND OPPORTUNITY. SECOND OPPORTUNITY In the SECOND OPPORTUNITY, students that do not re-take any of the tests (written test and/or SQL language test) will obtain a grade of "Non presentado" ("Absent"). If a student decides to retake a test, the final grade for that test will be the one obtained during the second opportunity (which can be higher or lower than the one obtained in the first opportunity). If a student decides to not retake one of the two tests, he/she will keep the grade for that test obtained in the first opportunity. COPYING AND/OR PLAGIARISM Fraudulent performance of the tests or assessment activities, once verified, will be penalized in accordance with the provisions of Article 14 of the Regulations for assessment, review and claim of grades for bachelor's and master's studies at UDC. ACADEMIC DISPENSATION Students officially enrolled part-time who have been granted an official dispensation from attending classes, as stipulated in the regulations of this University, will be able to do (and submit) all (or part) of the practices by their own. In the case that the activities require specific equipment, or are scheduled for a specific date and time, a viable alternative will be provided, where possible, at their request. ADVANCED OPPORTUNITY The assessment for the advanced opportunity will consist of a written exam that will compute for the 100% of the grade.

Basic	A. Silberschatz; H. Korth; S. Sudarshan (2010). Database System Concepts. McGraw Hill Elmasri, R.; Navathe, S. (2011). Database systems: models, languages, design, and application programming. Addison-Wesley Alan Beaulieu (2009). Learning SQL (2nd Ed). O'Reilly

Complementary	Cuadra, D.; Castro, E.; Iglesias, A. M.; Martínez, P.; Calle, F. J.; de Pablo, C.; Al-Jumaly, H.; Mo (2007). Desarrollo de Bases de Datos: casos prácticos desde el análisis a la implementación. Madrid: Ra-ma de Miguel, A,; Martínez, P.; Castro, E.; Cavero, M., Cuadra, D.; Iglesias, A. M.; Nieto, C. (2001). Diseño de bases de datos. Problemas resueltos. Madrid: Ra-ma

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