Introduction to DBMS

A Database Management System (DBMS) is software designed to create, manage, retrieve, and update data in a database, acting as an interface between users and data. It ensures data security, integrity, and reduces redundancy compared to traditional file systems. Key components include data definition, manipulation, and storage

  • Understand basic database concepts, DBMS advantages, architecture, and data models used database systems.
  • Draw simple ER diagrams and design relational database tables using keys and normalization techniques.
  • Write basic SQL queries to create tables, insert data, update records and retrieve information using SELECT queries.
  • Explain transaction concepts, concurrency problems, and basic recovery techniques used for safe database operations
  •  Understand indexing, file organization, and basics of modern database systems like NoSQL.