Database Management Systems Syllabus

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Course Contents

Unit 1

DBMS [Database Management System]: Introduction, Database Environment, Working of a Simple Centralized Database System, Tradition al File Systems vs. Modern Database Management Systems, Properties of Database, Types of Database Users, Advantages of using DBMS, Applications of traditional Database

Unit 2

Database Core Concepts and Applications: Introduction, Data Model, Schemas and Instances, three schema architecture, Languages and Interfaces, DBMS Components, Classification of Database Management Systems

Unit 3

Record Storage and Primary File Organization: Introduction, Memory Hierarchy, Secondary Storage Devices, Buffering of Blocks, Placing File Records on Disk, Operation on Files, Files of Unordered Records (Heap Files), Files of Ordered Records, Hashing Techniques

Unit 4

Index Structures of Files: Introduction , Primary index, Clustering Index, Multilevel indexes, B+Tree Index Files, B-tree

Unit 5

Entity-Relationship Model: Introduction, Conceptual Data model for Database Design, ER Model Concept with an example:, Components of an ER Model, Relationships, Roles and Structural Constraints,   Constraints on Relationship Types

Unit 6

Relational Algebra: Introduction, Relational Model Constraints, Update Operation on Relations, The Relational Algebra

Unit 7

Relational Calculus: Introduction, Tuple Relational Calculus, Domain Relational Calculas

Unit 8

SQL: Introduction, SQL, Multi table Queries, Nested Queries or Sub queries, Multiple Row Nested Queries, Data Manipulation Language, The Create Table Statement

Unit 9

Functional Dependencies and Normalization For Relational Databases: Introduction, Information Design Guide Lines for Relational DB, Levels of Relation Schema, Normal forms Based on Primary Keys, Boyce Codd Normal Form (BCNF), Fourth Normal Form (4NF), Normalization using Join Dependencies  

Unit 10

Transaction Processing: Introduction, Transaction Processing Concepts, Transactions in a multiuser system, Desirable Properties of Transactions

Unit 11

Concurrency Control Techniques: Introduction, Types of Locks: Locking Technique for Concurrency Control, the Two Phase Locking Protocol

Unit 12

Recovery Techniques: Introduction, Recovery Process, Deferred Update, Immediate Update

Unit 13

Distributed Databases: Introduction to Distributed DBMS Concepts, Client-Server Model, Data Fragmentation, Replication, and Allocation Techniques for Distributed Database Design

Unit 14

Object-Relational Databases: Introduction, Basics of Object Oriented Design (OOD), Characteristics- Advantages-Object oriented development-Objects and Object classes-Object Oriented data Model, Object oriented databases, Object Relational Database Management Systems

Unit 15

Security and integrity:Introduction, Security and Integrity Violations, Authorization, Granting of Privileges, Security Specification in SQL

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