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DATABASE SYSTEMS Course Outline

The document outlines the course details for DATABASE SYSTEMS (SEDB-227), including credit hours, prerequisites, recommended textbooks, and course learning outcomes. It specifies assessment methods and grading policies for students admitted from Fall 2021 and prior, along with a detailed weekly breakdown of topics covered in the course. The course focuses on fundamental database concepts, data modeling, relational database design, and various database management techniques.

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DATABASE SYSTEMS Course Outline

The document outlines the course details for DATABASE SYSTEMS (SEDB-227), including credit hours, prerequisites, recommended textbooks, and course learning outcomes. It specifies assessment methods and grading policies for students admitted from Fall 2021 and prior, along with a detailed weekly breakdown of topics covered in the course. The course focuses on fundamental database concepts, data modeling, relational database design, and various database management techniques.

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DATABASE SYSTEMS (SEDB-227)

I. Course Details
Credit Hours 4 (3+1)
Pre-requisites -
Course Leader Dr. Nargis Fatima
Recommended Textbook(s) 1. Modern database management, Jeffrey A. Hoffer, 12th Edition,
Pearson, 2016.
2. Database systems: A practical approach to design,
implementation, and management, Thomas Connolly and
Carolyn Begg, 6th Edition, Pearson, 2015.
Recommended Reference 1. Database system concepts, Avi Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth and
(Books/Websites/Articles) S. Sudarshan, 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2010.
2. Database systems: Design, implementation and management,
Carlos M. Coronel, 13th Edition, Cengage Learning, 2018.

II. Course Learning Outcomes (CLO)


CLOs Description Domain Taxonomy PLOs Assessment
Level Artifact
CLO-1 Explain fundamental database Cognitive 2 2 Q1, A1,
concepts, core principles and Midterm,
significance to state its main idea Presentation,
Final Term
CLO-2 Construct logical conceptual and Cognitive 3 3 Q2, A2.
physical data schema using data models Midterm, Final
to organize and structure data , ensure Term, Project
data integrity and facilitate effective
data management
CLO-3 Make use of relational and logical Cognitive 3 3 Q3, A3, Final
database design concepts to identify Term
anamolies in database by performing
normalization techniques

III. Course Assessment


Evaluation Methods Weight (%)
Quizzes 10
Assignments 10
Presentation/Project 5
Midterm 25
Final Term 50
Total 100

1
IV. Grading Policy
For students admitted in Fall 2021 and onwards
Grade A+ A B+ B C+ C D+ D F
%age >=90 80-89 75-79 70-74 65-69 60-64 55-59 50-54 <50
GPA 4.00 4.00 3.50-3.99 3.00-3.49 2.50-2.99 2.00-2.49 1.50-1.99 1.00-1.49 0.00

For students admitted before Fall 2021


Grade A1 A2 A3 B1 B2 B3 C1 C2 D F
%age >=90 80-89 77-79 74-76 70-73 67-69 64-66 60-63 50-59 <50
GPA 4.00 4.00 3.66 3.33 3.00 2.66 2.33 2.00 1.50 0.00

V. Course Contents
Fundamental database concepts, Database approach vs file based system, database architecture, three level
schema architecture, data independence, types of data model(relational data model, entity relationship
model), Entity Relationship diagram, entity sets, attributes, relationship, attributes, schemas, tuples,
domains Enhanced entity relationship model(EER diagram),relational and logical database design, ,
relation instances, keys of relations, integrity constraints, types of joins, functional dependencies, normal
forms, Structured Query Language (SQL), data definition languages , sub-queries in SQL, Transaction
Management ,data mining, data warehousing, NoSQL.

VI. Weekly Breakdown


Week CLO Topics Reference
No.
1 CLO-1 Course introduction, Fundamental database concepts: Data, data Chapter 1
versus information, data, manual file processing, traditional file [Textbook 1]
processing, disadvantages of manual and traditional file processing
systems.
2 Database approach vs file-based system, Advantages and dis- Chapter 1
advantages of database management system, components of [Textbook 1]
DBMS environment.
3 Data Models (Relational Data Model, ER Data Model) Three level Chapter 2, 4
schema architecture (ANSI SPARC), external level, conceptual [Textbook 2]
level, internal level, data independence, data dependence database
languages overview
4 CLO-2 Modeling rules process in organization (overview of business Chapter 2
rules, scope of business rules) types of business rules structure of [Textbook 1]
business rules, constraints, types of keys (primary key, composite
key, surrogate key and foreign key)
5 ERD vs business rules, modelling entities and attributes (entity and Chapter 2
entity type, Strong vs weak entity, associative entity attributes and [Textbook 1]

2
types of attributes) relationship type. Degree of relationship
(unary/recursive, binary and ternary relationship) structural
constraints (one to one, one to many, many to many), minimum
and maximum cardinality.
6 Enhanced Entity–Relationship Modeling (EERD), data modeling Chapter 3
concepts of the Enhanced Entity–Relationship model (super type, [Textbook 1]
sub type, specialization and generalization
7 Specifying constraints in super type and sub type in Enhanced Chapter 3
Entity–Relationship Modeling (EERD) [Textbook 1]
8 CLO-3 Logical database design and relational model (relations, relation Chapter 4
keys, integrity constraints (domain constraint, entity integrity and [Textbook 1]
referential integrity), transforming ERD and EERD into relations.
9 Midterm Exams

10 CLO-3 Functional dependencies (Full functional dependency, partial Chapter 13


functional dependency, transitive dependency) [Textbook 2]
11 Normalization process- 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, Denormalization, Chapter 13,
BCNF(optional), 4NF (optional) 14
[Textbook 2]
12 CLO-1 Relational Algebra selection, Project Cartesian product, Union, Set Chapter 4
difference, Join operation [Textbook 2]
13 Database recovery and security OR Introduction to data mining Internet
Resource
14 Introduction to data mining (data ware housing, OLAP, OLTP) Chapter 9
[Textbook 1]
15 NoSQL OR Database life cycle Internet
Resource
16 Transaction management (optional), Concurrency control Chapter 20
(optional) [Textbook 2]

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