Syllabus till December 2004

This is an introductory course to a subject which has recently gained a lot of importance. Apart from discussing the conventional databases (Hierarchical, Network and Relational Database),we have also touched upon the emerging trends in DBMS which includes object oriented database, distributed databases, client server databases and knowledge database.

Another important feature of this course is discussion on file organisations of conventional databases. There is a complete unit which discusses large number of file organisation techniques such as sequential file organisation, index sequential file organisation, random file organisation, multi key file organisation. This course contains only 3 blocks.