Part A
Need of DBMS over traditional Data storage mechanisms, Basic DBMS terminologies; Architecture of a DBMS: Data Independence, DBMS Component Structure, DBMS USERS, various DBMS Data Models,
Conceptual Model: Entity Relationship Model, Importance of ERD, Symbols (Entity:Types of Entities, week Entity, Composite Entity, Strong Entity, Attribute: Types of Attribute, Relationship: Type of relationship, Connectivity, Cardinality). Normalization and its various forms, Functional Dependencies, Multivalued Dependencies, Join Dependencies Database Integrity: Domain, Entity, Referential Integrity Constraints
Relational Languages: Relational Algebra, Relational Calculus, Query Execution, optimization and evaluation Plans.
Transaction Management and Concurrency Control techniques, Database Recovery Management Concepts and methods.
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