Database Management System
CEN 351
Course Description
• A database management system (DBMS) is a computer
application program
• designed for the efficient and effective storage, access
and update of large volumes of information. This
course will look at such systems from two perspectives:
• • A user-centered perspective focusing on how a DBMS
is used to support a data intensive application. This
perspective includes a look at the common data
models, query languages and design techniques.
• • A system implementation perspective focusing on the
policies, algorithms and data structures used to design
and implement a DBMS.
Course Objectives
• Develop an appreciation of the role of data and
databases in information systems.
• Understand the database development activities
during the System Development Cycle (SDLC)
• Be familiar with the data modelling concepts (E-R and
Class diagrams) used in database design.
• Be able to create databases and pose complex SQL
queries of relational databases.
• Develop appreciation of several DBMS’s (MS SQL
Server)
• Be familiar with a broad range of data management
issues including data integrity and security.
Course Outcomes
• An understanding of the basic concepts and theoretical
knowledge of relational database systems.
• A comprehensive skill of data modelling using the entityrelationship modelling technique as well as converting data
models into correctly normalized relational database
designs.
• Having ability of retrieving useful data from an database by
using complicated queries in the standard SQL database
query language.
• Competence in the issues involved in physical database
design as well as database security and performance.
• An understanding and administering of most common
DBMSs
Course Content
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Course Introduction
Database System Concepts and Architecture
Data Modeling Using the Entity Relationship(ER) Model
ER Diagrams, Design Issues
Enhanced Entitiy-Relationship Model
Relational Data Model
Relational Database Concepts
Relational Database Design by ER ande EER to Relational Mapping
Midterm
SQL: Definition and Data Types
Queries in SQL
Advanced Queries in SQL
Data Manipulation in SQL
Distributed Databases and Client Server Architecture
Course Assesment
• Method
Quantity
Quiz
2
• Homework
4
• Project
1
• Midterm Exam(s) 1
• Final Exam
1
• Total
Percentage(%)
15
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20
15
40
100
Teaching Methods and TextBook
Teaching Methods
• Lectures,
• Practical Sessions,
• Presentation,
• Project,
• Assignments
Textbook
Fundamental of DBMS, 5th Edition,Elmastri/Navathe