(304C) RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 1. Introduction 1.1 History: Advantages and limitations of RDBMS; Users of RDBMS 1.

2 Software Modules in RDBMS; Architecture of RDBMS. 2. Modeling Techniques 2.1 Different Types of Models, Introduction to ERD. 3. Hierarchical Database 4. Network Database

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5. Relational Database Introduction; Codd's Rules; Concept of Domain, Tuple, Cardinality; Comparison between HDBNDB-RDB (6) 6. Normalization Advantages and disadvantages of Normalization; 1NF-2NF-3NF rules with examples; Anomalies.

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7. SQL commands. Basic Structure, Set Operations, Aggregate Functions, Null Values, Nested Sub queries, Views, Complex Queries, Modification of the Database, Joined Relations, Data-Definition Language, Embedded SQL, Dynamic SQL, Exercises. (20) 8. Introduction to object oriented database Concept, Object binding in Oracle - Class, Attribute, Methods, Object type, Definition, Declaring and initializing, Methods, Alter and Drop type. Books Recommended:1. DATABASE System Concepts, Silberschatz , Korth, Sudarshan 2. SQL by Scott Urman

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