The main objective of this undergraduate course is to provide an in-depth understanding of concepts related to the design and utilization of a database management system. Students will get a deeper understanding by implementing these concepts in a commercial database management system. The course is organized in four parts: i) Introduction and Conceptual Modeling using the ER Model, ii) Relational Model and Relational Algebra, iii) Structured Query Language III, and iv) Database Design Theory and Methodology
Outline: Introduction: Databases and Database Users, Database System Concepts and Architecture, Data Modeling Using the Entity-Relationship (ER) Model, The Enhanced Entity-Relationship (EER) Model, The Relational Data Model and Relational Database Constraints, Relational Algebra, Relational Database Design by ERand EER-to-Relational Mapping, SQL-99: Schema Definition, Constraints, Queries, and Views, Introduction to SQL Programming Techniques, Functional Dependencies and Normalization for Relational Databases, Relational Database Design Algorithms and Further Dependencies, Practical Database Design Methodology.
Course Website: https://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/courses/EPL342/
- Teacher: Demetris Zeinalipour
- Teacher assistant: Christoforos Panayiotou