1. Relational Model. Example: tables in the Access example database.
2. Query languages: SQL, QBE.
3. Integrity Constraints.
4. Relational Database Design.
5. Implementation issues: file structure; file organization; data-dictionary storage.
6. Indexing and Hashing.
7. Query Processing.
8. Transactions.
9. Concurrency Control.
10. Recovery System
11. Database System Architectures: centralized systems; client-server; parallel; distributed; network.
12. Special Topics: security and integrity; time in databases; user interfaces.
13. New Applications: data analysis; data mining; data warehousing; spatial and geographic databases; multimedia databases; mobility and personal databases; information retrieval systems; distributed information systems; the World Wide Web.

Reading

1. Chapter 1 textbook