Database Management Systems (3-0-3)

First Lecture for the course will be held on THURSDAY 02.01.2020 at 08:00 AM in NC242.


Course Content:

Theory:
Database system architecture: Data Abstraction, Data Independence, Data Definition and Data Manipulation Languages.
Data models: Entity-relationship, network, relational and object oriented data models, integrity constraints and data manipulation operations.
Relational query languages: Relational algebra, tuple and domain relational calculus, SQL and QBE.
Relational database design: Domain and data dependency, Armstrongs axioms, normal forms, dependency preservation, lossless design.
Query processing and optimization: Evaluation of relational algebra expressions, query equivalence, join strategies, query optimization algorithms.
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 warehousing and data mining.


Laboratory:
Database schema design, database creation, SQL programming and report generation using a commercial RDBMS like ORACLE/SYBASE/DB2/SQL-Server/INFORMIX.
Students are to be exposed to front end development tools, ODBC and CORBA calls from application Programs, internet based access to databases and database administration.

Laboratory will be taken jointly by Prof. S. K. Ghosh and Prof. S. Sural

Prerequisite: Discrete Structures (CS21001)

Class Hours
Theory: Monday 12:00-12:55, Tuesday 10:00-11:55 Thursday 08:00-08:55 Venue: NC 242
Lab: Tuesday 14:00 - 16:55 Venue: SWLAB (Annex Building, Dept. of CSE)

Student Doubt Clearing/Consultation: Thursday 17:00-18:00 Venue : My office located in the second floor of the Takshashila building


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