DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

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Three credit-hours. Three hours of lecture per week. This course introduces some techniques for traditional building of relational database management systems (DBMS). The course focuses on design, implementation, performance, and reliability considerations for DBMS. It emphasizes database engine architecture, disk storage organization, buffer management, B+-trees indexing, hash-based indexing, traditional joint algorithms, two-phase locking and concurrency, write ahead logging, query optimization, database benchmarking, object-oriented databases, data warehousing, and data mining. This course will also enable students to expand their communications and information skills through the development of a complete database application project.