Introduction Copyright © 2007 Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant B. Navathe

Course Identification and General Information Course title and code: Database Management systems IS3511 Credit hours: 3 (2 lecture +1 lab) Name of faculty member responsible for the course: T. Nourah AL-Aseem

Course Identification and General Information Level/year at which this course is offered: Level 6.   Pre-requisites for this course:   Introduction to Database Systems (IS2511)

Course description: This course aims to introduce advanced topics in databases and database management systems (DBMS) to the students. It covers theoretical as well as practical topics. The theoretical topics will make student aware of many operations occur behind the scenes such as: Transactions, Transaction processing, concurrency control, database recovery techniques Also students will be aware with advanced data models such as Object and Object-Relational Database models, Database Security and Authorization, Data Mining and data warehouse Concepts, distributed databases. The student will be able to design practice oracle PL/SQL statements

Course Learning Outcomes Student completing this course successfully will be able to : State Transaction Processing and Concurrency Control Concepts. Explain Disk Storage, File structure and file indexing. Analyze advanced data models such as Object Oriented Database and Distributed Database. Explain Query Processing and Database Performance Tuning. Differentiate Database Security Mechanisms Demonstrate different PL/SQL query-related tasks using Oracle

Topics to be Covered Transaction Processing. 3 Concurrency control 2   3 Concurrency control 2 Database Recovery Techniques 1 Disk Storage , Basic file structure and Hashing Indexing Structure for Files Query Processing Database Performance Tuning Distributed databases Database Security Object Databases Concepts, standards, languages and Design

Resources Ramez Elmasri, Shamkant B. Navathe, “Fundamentals of Database Systems”, 5th ed., Addison-Wesley, 2006 ,ISBN-10: 0321369572 ISBN-13: 978-0321369574  

Schedule of Assessment Schedule of Assessment Tasks for Students During the Semester Assessment Assessment task (eg. essay, test, group project, examination etc.) Week due Proportion of Final Assessment 1 Midterm Exam (1) 6 15 % 2 Midterm Exam (2) 11 15% 3 Quizzes And Assignments During Semester 10 % 4 Lab Quizzes 5 Lab Exam 15 10% Final Exam 40%

n.alaseem@psau.edu.sa