Introduction to files and file system, Database System, Database Models, Types of Database Systems: Client Server, Distributed DBMS, Advantages of DBMS.
Database Architecture: Database Abstraction, Data Independence, Integrity Rules, Relational Database, Keys: Primary Key, Foreign Key, Alternate Key, Candidate Key.
E-R Model, Designing Tables from the ER model, Normalization: 1NF, 2NF, 3NF
Creating tables, Select Statement, Handling Null Values, ORDER BY clause, WHERE clause, GROUP BY clause, Relational Operators, Logical Operators, SQL Operators, Numeric Functions, String Functions, Date Functions.
Database Security, Access Control, Integrity Constraint, The DBA’s Managerial Role.