Database Management Systems I

The course is provide students with  a strong foundation in system- atic approaches to design and implementation  of database applications. Preliminarily operations like requirements gathering and database plan- ning will be covered.  The course will also introduce students to devel- oping of application programs that talk to the database.  These appli- cations may be online or off line.The aims of the course are to:

• Provide a background for the evolution of database (management)systems
• Provide the students with the steps one has to go through when developing good database applications
• Give hand on experience and knowledge in developing database(driven) applications