To provide the basis for data handling and management To make students able to apply data management and storage optimization techniques to a given problem Write queries to manipulate data

General information about databases and database users Database system concepts and architecture SQL and SQL programming techniques Relational algebra, relational calculus and entity-relationship (ER) model Object and object-relational databases UML and XML Functional dependencies and normalization for relational databases Relational database design algorithms Disk storage, file structures, hashing and indexing structures for files Query processing and optimization Database security & database recovery techniques Distributed databases