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Database Management System

Course Code BCS403

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Module 1

Introduction to Databases
  1. Introduction
  2. Characteristics of database approach
  3. Advantages of using the DBMS approach
  4. History of database applications
Overview of Database Languages and Architectures
  1. Data Models
  2. Schemas
  3. Instances
  4. Three schema architecture and data independence
  5. database languages
  6. interfaces
  7. The Database System environment
Conceptual Data Modelling using Entities and Relationships
  1. Entity types
  2. Entity sets and structural constraints
  3. Weak entity types
  4. ER diagrams
  5. Specialization and Generalization
Module 1

Module 2

Relational Mode
  1. Relational Model Concepts
  2. Relational Model Constraints and relational database schemas
  3. Update operations
  4. transactions
  5. dealing with constraint violations.
Relational Algebra
  1. Unary and Binary relational operations
  2. additional relational operations (aggregate, grouping, etc.)
  3. Examples of Queries in relational algebra
Mapping Conceptual Design into a Logical Design
  1. Relational Database Design using ER-to-Relational mapping.
Module 2

Module 3

Introduction to Databases
  1. Introduction
  2. Characteristics of database approach
  3. Advantages of using the DBMS approach
  4. History of database applications
Overview of Database Languages and Architectures
  1. Data Models
  2. Schemas
  3. Instances
  4. Three schema architecture and data independence
  5. database languages
  6. interfaces
  7. The Database System environment
Conceptual Data Modelling using Entities and Relationships
  1. Entity types
  2. Entity sets and structural constraints
  3. Weak entity types
  4. ER diagrams
  5. Specialization and Generalization
Module 3

Module 4

SQL: Advanced Queries
  1. Specifying constraints as assertions
  2. action triggers
  3. Views in SQL
Transaction Processing
  1. Introduction to Transaction Processing
  2. Transaction and System concepts
  3. Desirable properties of Transactions
  4. Characterizing schedules based on recoverability
  5. Characterizing schedules based on Serializability
  6. Transaction support in SQL
Module 4

Module 5

Concurrency Control in Databases
  1. Two-phase locking techniques for Concurrency control
  2. Concurrency control based on Timestamp ordering
  3. Multiversion Concurrency control techniques
  4. Validation Concurrency control techniques
  5. Granularity of Data items and Multiple Granularity Locking
NOSQL Databases and Big Data Storage Systems
  1. Introduction to NOSQL Systems
  2. The CAP Theorem
  3. Document-Based NOSQL Systems and MongoDB
  4. NOSQL Key-Value Stores
  5. Column-Based or Wide
  6. Column NOSQL Systems
  7. NOSQL Graph Databases and Neo4j
Module 5