Administer IT

Whether in the form of records, barcodes, transactions, and even multimedia, our society produces an astronomical amount of data every day. IT professionals maintain, protect and manage all this data in databases and other data repositories. Plus, beyond data storage, database professionals have to ensure data integrity, recoverability, and security.

The Advanced Certificate in Database Administration provides an opportunity for students to gain a solid foundation in database theory along with the in-depth, hands-on experience necessary for a career in database administration. Database positions span business and industry, academia, and governmental agencies. Jobs are available in all geographic areas with titles such as: database developer, database engineer, database administrator, engineering services technical specialist, and database administration manager.

To quality for these positions, students learn the fundamental skills necessary for successful database administration such as hands-on development of database systems, best practices in database security, privacy, and data integrity, and current technologies and discussions of real-world issues. They also learn to ...

• Define and model user requirements, translate requirement specifications into a well-designed database, and effectively employ the SQL language to retrieve information.
• Handle the operating system concepts relevant to database administration, including issues that impact connectivity, security, and capacity planning.
• Implement and maintain multi-user database systems using an industry standard DBMS.
• Analyze and resolve the performance problems typical in today’s database systems.

The advanced certificate is composed of four (4) graduate courses (16 quarter-credits) available in part-time, on-campus format. The courses in this certificate can also be used towards the MS in Information Technology degree which is also offered by the Information Technology department at RIT.

The certificate includes the following four (4) 4-credit graduate courses:

• 4002-720 Data Object Development
• 4055-744 *NIX Fundamentals (for the Database Domain)
• 4002-785 Fundamentals of DBMS Architecture & Implementation
• 4002-787 Database Performance & Tuning

For More Information

Check out:

• The RIT information page
• Click here to download the degree handbook.
• Email us at: InformaticsGrad@rit.edu
• Call us at (585) 475-2700