Text/recommended reading list added, as none existed before.

Introduction to importance of information and data to organizations, Entity-Relationship data model, relational model. The relational algebra operators and SQL. Normalisation of relations, query processing, recovery and concurrency in databases, database security. You will learn about embedded SQL, and be able to write programs in PHP.

PRESCRIBED TEXT: Ramakrishnan, Raghu and Gehrke, Database Management Systems, 3rd edn., McGraw-Hill.

RECOMMENDED READING: Elmasri, R. and S. B. Navathe, Fundamentals of Database Systems, 4th edn.,

Date, C. J., An Introduction to Database Systems, 8th edn., Addison-Wesley.

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