Time Duration: 45 Days

Unit 1:
DBMS Concepts and architecture Introduction, Review of file organization techniques Database approach v/s Traditional tile accessing approach, Advantages of database systems Data models, Schemas and instances, Data independence, Functions of DBA and designer. Entities and attributes, Entity types, Value, Sets, Key attributes, Relationships, Defining the E-R diagram of database.

Unit 2:
Data models and Relational Databases Various data models, Basic concepts of Hierarchical data model Network data model, and Relational data model, Comparison between the three types of models, Relational Data models: Domains, Tuples, Attributes, Relations, Characteristics of relations, Keys, Key attributes of relation, Relational database, Schemas, Integrity constraints, Intension and Extension.

Unit 3:
Structured Query Language Relational Query languages: Relational algebra and relational calculus, Relational algebra operations like select, Project, Join, Division, outer union. SQL: Data definition in SQL, update statements and views in SQL QUEL & QBE: Data storage and definitions, Data retrieval queries and update statements.

Unit 4:
Database Design Data Base Design: Introduction to normalization, Normal forms, Functional dependency, Decomposition, Dependency preservation and lossless join, problems with null valued and dangling tuples, multi-valued dependencies.

Unit 5:
Advance Concepts: Introduction to: Distributed databases, protection, security and integrity constraints, concurrent operation on databases, recovery and transaction processing, basic concepts of object oriented data base system and design.