Introduction, Characteristics of the Database Approach, Actors on the Scene, Workers behind the Scene, Advantages of Using the DBMS Approach

Data Models, Schemas, and Instances, Three-Schema Architecture and Data Independence, Database Languages and Interfaces, Database System Environment, Centralized and Client/Server Architectures for DBMSs, Classification of Database Management Systems

High-Level Conceptual Data Models for Database Design, Entity Types, Entity Sets, Attributes, and Keys, Relationship Types, Relationship Sets, Roles, Structural Constraints, Weak Entity Types, ER Diagrams, Naming Conventions, Design Issues, Relationship Types of Degree Higher Than Two, Subclasses, Superclasses, Inheritance, Specialization and Generalization, Constraints and Characteristics of Specialization and Generalization

Relational Model Concepts, Relational Model Constraints and Relational Database Schemas, Update Operations, Transactions, and Constraint Violations

Unary Relational Operations: SELECT and PROJECT, Relational Algebra Operations from Set Theory, Binary Relational Operations: JOIN and DIVISION, Additional Relational Operations, Tuple Relational Calculus, Domain Relational Calculus

Data Definition and Data Types, Specifying Constraints, Basic and Complex Retrieval Queries, INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE Statements, Views

ER-to-Relational Mapping, Informal Design Guidelines for Relational Schemas, Functional Dependencies, Normal Forms: 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, BCNF, 4NF, Properties of Relational Decomposition

Transaction Processing, Transaction and System Concepts, Desirable Properties of Transactions, Characterizing Schedules Based on Recoverability and Serializability

Two-Phase Locking Technique, Timestamp Ordering, Multiversion Concurrency Control, Validation (Optimistic) Techniques, Snapshot Isolation Concurrency Control

Recovery Concepts, NO-UNDO/REDO Recovery Based on Deferred Update, Immediate Update Recovery Techniques, Shadow Paging, Database Backup and Recovery from Catastrophic Failures