1. Introduction
Copyright © 2007 Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant B. Navathe

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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

6. 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

7. Topics to be Covered Transaction Processing. 3 Concurrency control 23
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

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

9. 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%