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Database Management System (DBMS and Oracle 9i)

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Course Name        MCA (Master of Computer Application)

Subject Code       MC0067 (Database Management System (DBMS and Oracle 9i))

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Database Management System (DBMS and Oracle 9i) Syllabus.

Part 1: Fundamentals of DBMS
Introduction; DBMS & Approaches to Data Management; Advantages of Database Systems; Functions of a DBMS; Role of the Database Administrator; Types of Database Systems.

Part 2: Physical Storage Structure of Databases
Introduction; Physical Storage Structure; Clustering; Indexing; Hashing; Linear Search, Collision Chain.

Part 3: Introduction to Relational Model
Introduction; The Relational Model; Properties of Relations; Integrity Rules; Relational Algebra Operators.

Part 4: Database Processing
Introduction; Database Architecture: Application Logic, One Tier Architectures, Two Tier Client/Server Architectures; Advantages of Database Processing: Economy of Scale, Efficient extraction of relevant Information, Sharing of Data, Balancing Conflicting Requirements, Environment of Standards, Controlled Redundancy, Consistency, Integrity, Security, Flexibility and Responsiveness, Data Independence; Three Level Architecture of a Database; Services of a Database System; Functions of Database Management Systems.

Part 5: Relational Operators & Standards
Introduction; Relational Model – a Review: Relation, Formal definition of a relation; SQL – The Relational database standard: Database Creation, Sorting, Built-in Functions, Joining Tables, Union; Relational Algebra.

Part 6: Database Design
Introduction; Introduction to Database Design; E-R Modeling: Basic Constructs of E-R Modeling, Degree of a Relationship, ER Notation; Normalization: Functional Dependence, First Normal Form, Second Normal Form, Third Normal Form, Boyce-Codd Normal Form, Multi-valued Dependencies and Fourth Normal Form; Database Design Goals.

Part 7 Database Security and Authorization
Introduction; Introduction to Database Security Issues: Types of Security, Threats to Databases, Database Security and the DBA; Access Protection, User Accounts, and Database Audits; Discretionary Access Control Based on Granting and Revoking Privileges: Types of Discretionary Privileges, Specifying Privileges Using Views, Revoking Privileges, Propagation of Privileges Using the grant option; Mandatory Access Control and Role-based Access Control or Multilevel Security: Comparing Discretionary Access Control and Mandatory Access Control, Role-Based Access Control, Access Control Policies for E-Commerce and the Web; Introduction to Statistical Database Security; Introduction to Flow Control: Covert Channels; Encryption and Public Key Infrastructures: The Data and Advanced Encryption Standards, Public Key Encryption, Digital Signatures.

Part 8 ORDBMS and Concepts of Data Mining and Data Warehousing
Introduction; The Evolution of Database Systems Technology; The Informix Universal Server; Categories of INFORMIX Universal Server; Overview of Data Mining Technology; Goals of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Association Rules: Market-Basket Model, Support, and Confidence, Additional Considerations for Association Rules Classification, Clustering; Approaches to Other Data Mining Problems: Discovery of Sequential Patterns, Discovery of Patterns in Time Series, Regression, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Applications of Data Mining; Commercial Data Mining Tools; Data Warehousing: Introduction, Definitions, and Terminology, Characteristics of Data Warehouses, Data Modeling for Data Warehouses, Building a Data Warehouse, Typical Functionality of a Data Warehouse, Data Warehouse versus Views; Problems and Open Issues in Data Warehouses: Difficulties of Implementing Data Warehouses, Open Issues in Data Warehousing.

Part 9: SQL
Introduction; SQL - An Overview: Data Manipulation Language, Data Definition Language, Data Control Language; Implementation of DML Statements: Basics of the SELECT Statement, Conditional Selection, Relational Operators, More Complex Conditions: Compound Conditions / Logical Operators; In & Between; SQL Order of Logical Operations (each operates from left to right):Using LIKE ; Joins: Keys, Performing a Join, DISTINCT and Eliminating Duplicates, Aliases & In / Subqueries; Miscellaneous SQL Statements: Aggregate Functions, Views, Creating New Tables, Altering Tables, Adding Data, Deleting Data, Updating Data; Miscellaneous Topics: Indexes, Group By & Having, More Subqueries, Exists & All, UNION & Outer Joins, Cartesian product.

Part 10: Transaction Processing, Recovery and Concurrency
Introduction; Transactions, Read And Write Operations; Transaction and System Concepts; Transaction and System Concepts; Recovery from System Failures; Concurrency Control Mechanism: Locking, Deadlocks.

Part1: Database Systems – Concepts and Architecture
Data Models, Schemas, and Instances: Categories of Data Models, Schemas, Instances, and Database State; Three-Schema Architecture and Data Independence: The Three-Schema Architecture, Data Independence; Database Languages and Interfaces: dbms Languages, dbms Interfaces, The Database System Environment: dbms Component Modules, Database System Utilities, Tools, Application Environments, and Communications Facilities; Centralized and Client/Server Architectures for dbmss : Centralized dbmss Architecture; Basic Client/Server Architectures, Two-Tier Client/Server Architectures for dbmss, Three-Tier Client/Server Architectures for Web Applications; Classification of Database Management Systems.

Part 2: Data Modeling Using the Entity Relationship Model
Using High Level conceptual Data Models for Database Design; An example Database Application; Entity Types, Entity Sets, Attributes and Keys : Entities and attributes, Entity Types, Entity Sets, Keys, And Value Sets, Initial Conceptual Design Of The COMPANY Database; Relationship types, Relationship sets, roles and Structural Constraints: Relationship Types, Sets, And Instances, Relationship Degree, Role Names, And Recursive Relationships, Attributes Of Relationship Types; Weak Entity Types.

Part 3: The Relational Data Model and Relational Database Constraints
Elational Model Concepts: Domains, Attributes, Tuples, and Relations, Characteristics of Relations, Relational Model Notation; Relational Model Constraints and Relational Database Schemas : Relational Databases and Relational Database Schemas, Other Types of Constraints; Update Operations and Dealing With Constraint Vioations: The Insert Operation, The Delete Operation, The Update Operation.

Part 4: Relational Database Design by ER- and EER-to-Relational Mapping
Relational Database Design Using ER-To-Relational Mapping: ER- to- Relational Mapping Algorithm; Mapping EER Model Constructs to Relations: Mapping of Specialization or Generalization.

Part 5: Introduction to Transaction Processing-Concepts and Theory
Transaction Processing: Transactions, Read and Write Operations, and DBMS Buffers; Why Recovery is Needed: Commit Point of a Transaction, Commit Point of a Transaction, Desirable Properties of Transactions; Concurrency Control Techniques: Two-phase Locking Techniques for Concurrency Control, Types of locks and system lock tables ; Database Recovery Concepts: Recovery Outline and Categorization of Recovery Algorithms.

Part 6: Fire Organizations and Indexes
Computer Storage Media: Memory Hierarchies and Storage Devices, Magnetic Tape Storage Devices; Buffering of Blocks; Placing File Records on Disk: Records and Record Types, Files, Fixed-Length Records, and Variable-Length Records, Record Blocking and Spanned Versus
Unspanned Records, Allocating File Blocks on Disk, File Headers; Operations on Files; Files of UnOrdered Records (Heap Files); Files of Ordered Records (Sorted Files); Hashing Techniques: Internal Hashing; Indexing Structures for Files: Types of Single-level Ordered Indexes, Other Types of Indexes.
 

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