DATABASE FUNDAMENTALS

The course emphasizes on the importance of data to an organization and how the data should be managed. Database management system (DBMS) will be viewed as a solution to the problems of file processing system. Aspects of relational database design will be covered in details. This includes database development life cycle, database architecture, data models, and normalization process. Structured Query Language (SQL) will be discussed and empahsised as query language in database management. Students will be given a real life problem to design and develop a database application system. In the later part of the course students will be exposed to the latest developments in database architecture.