This course will give students an introduction to database management systems.  It will cover the underlying structures necessary for building databases, several database models and languages, database design strategy and management of queries and transactions.

Some of the topics that will be covered are:

• Physical storage of data
• Data modeling
• Relational model
• SQL
• Object-relational model
• Database design
• Query optimization
• Web-based database programming
• Transaction management
• Object-oriented databases
• Distributed databases
• Real-time databases