The University of Phoenix offers individual college level courses. Students can take these courses for additional credits needed to complete a degree program, professional development, or to meet professional continuing education requirements. Courses numbered 100 - 499 are undergraduate level courses. Courses numbered 500 - 599 are graduate level courses.

This course covers database concepts. Topics include data analysis, the principal data models with emphasis on the relational model, entity-relationship diagrams, database design, normalization, and database administration.

This course continues the subjects studied in DBM380, Database Concepts. Emphasis is placed on transforming data models into physical databases. An overview is given of various database systems as well as data warehousing. The role of databases in e-Business is also examined.

This courses will provide the fundamental knowledge students need to: recognize the information needs of a business and translate those needs to efficient and flexible file and database solutions; use file and database solutions to model and effectively support business processes; evaluate the construct, utility and possible business applications of: data warehousing, data marts, and data mining; analyze and obtain effective business solutions for data management; and identify business needs, which may be solved with client/server solutions.

The course focuses on database management systems from a managerial perspective. Emphasis is placed on developing a strategy for managing and organizing corporate data, including data warehousing, to support the business activities of the organization.