Module I

Database System Architecture – Data Abstraction, Da ta Independence, Data Definitions and Data Manipulation Languages.

Data models – Entity Relationship (ER), Mapping ER Model to Relational Mode, Network. Relational and Object Oriented Data Models, Integrity Constraints and Data Manipulation Operations.

Module II

Relation Query Languages, Relational Algebra, Tuple and Domain Relational Calculus, SQL and QBE.

Relational Database Design: Domain and Data dependency, Armstrong’s Axioms, Normal Forms, Dependency Preservation, Lossless design, Comparison of Oracle & DB2.

Module III

Query Processing and Optimization: Evaluation of Relational Algebra Expressions, Query Equivalence, Join strategies, Query Optimization Algorithms.

Module IV

Storage Strategies: Indices, B-Trees, Hashing, Transaction processing: Recovery and Concurrency Control, Locking and Timestamp based Schedulers, Multiversion and Optimistic Concurrency Control Schemes.

Advanced Topics: Object-Oriented and Object Relational databases. Logical Databases, Web Databases, Distributed Databases, Data Warehouse and Data Mining.