Syllabus

CS6302       DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

 

OBJECTIVES:

·        To expose the students to the fundamentals of Database Management Systems.

·        To make the students understand the relational model.

·        To familiarize the students with ER diagrams.

·        To expose the students to SQL.

·        To make the students to understand the fundamentals of Transaction Processing and Query Processing.

·        To familiarize the students with the different types of databases.

·        To make the students understand the Security Issues in Databases.

 

UNIT I         INTRODUCTION TO DBMS

File Systems Organization - Sequential, Pointer, Indexed, Direct - Purpose of Database System- Database System Terminologies-Database characteristics- Data models – Types of data models – Components of DBMS- Relational Algebra. LOGICAL DATABASE DESIGN: Relational DBMS - Codd's Rule - Entity-Relationship model - Extended ER Normalization – Functional Dependencies, Anomaly- 1NF to 5NF- Domain Key Normal Form – Denormalization

 

UNIT II        SQL & QUERY OPTIMIZATION

SQL Standards - Data types - Database Objects- DDL-DML-DCL-TCL-Embedded SQL-Static Vs Dynamic SQL - QUERY OPTIMIZATION: Query Processing and Optimization - Heuristics and Cost Estimates in Query Optimization.

 

UNIT III       TRANSACTION PROCESSING AND CONCURRENCY CONTROL

Introduction-Properties of Transaction- Serializability- Concurrency Control – Locking Mechanisms- Two Phase Commit Protocol-Dead lock.

 

UNIT IV       TRENDS IN DATABASE TECHNOLOGY

Overview of Physical Storage Media – Magnetic Disks – RAID – Tertiary storage – File Organization – Organization of Records in Files – Indexing and Hashing –Ordered Indices – B+ tree Index Files – B tree Index Files – Static Hashing – Dynamic Hashing - Introduction to Distributed Databases- Client server technology- Multidimensional and Parallel databases- Spatial and multimedia databases- Mobile and web databases- Data Warehouse-Mining- Data marts.

 

UNIT V        ADVANCED TOPICS

DATABASE SECURITY: Data Classification-Threats and risks – Database access Control – Types of Privileges –Cryptography- Statistical Databases.- Distributed Databases-Architecture-Transaction Processing-Data Warehousing and Mining-Classification-Association rules-Clustering-Information Retrieval- Relevance ranking-Crawling and Indexing the Web- Object Oriented Databases-XML Databases.

 

OUTCOMES:

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

·        Design Databases for applications.

·        Use the Relational model, ER diagrams.

·        Apply concurrency control and recovery mechanisms for practical problems.

·        Design the Query Processor and Transaction Processor.

·        Apply security concepts to databases.

 

TEXT BOOK

1.    Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant B. Navathe, “Fundamentals of Database Systems”, Fifth Edition, Pearson Education, 2008.

 

REFERENCES:

1.    Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth and S. Sudharshan, “Database System Concepts”, Sixth Edition, Tata Mc Graw Hill, 2011.

2.    C.J.Date, A.Kannan and S.Swamynathan, “An Introduction to Database Systems”, Eighth Edition, Pearson Education, 2006.

3.    Atul Kahate, “Introduction to Database Management Systems”, Pearson Education, New Delhi, 2006.

4.    Alexis Leon and Mathews Leon, “Database Management Systems”, Vikas Publishing House Private Limited, New Delhi, 2003.

5.    Raghu Ramakrishnan, “Database Management Systems”, Fourth Edition, Tata Mc Graw Hill, 2010.

6.    G.K.Gupta, “Database Management Systems”, Tata Mc Graw Hill, 2011.

7.    Rob Cornell, “Database Systems Design and Implementation”, Cengage Learning, 2011.