Introduction to Database Management Systems (DBMS). Databases. Database users. Advantages of using a DBMS. Schemas and instances. DBMS architecture. The principle of data independence. The entity-relationship, the relational and the object-relational model. Integrity constraints. Database update operations. Database languages. Relational algebra. Tuple and domain relational calculus. The QBE language. SQL as a query language: queries, views, update statements. Introduction to primary file organizations and indexes. Presentation of commercial DBMSs.

The student that will complete successfully the course is expected that will be in position to:

• Analyze the requirements and design a database
• Apply the principles of conceptual and logical modeling and designing of databases
• Implement SQL queries in a database management systems
• Design well structured databases based on the normalization rules
• Understand the cost of processing a query on a database.

Not required.

1. Elmasri R. and Navathe S.B.: "Θεμελιώδεις Αρχές Συστημάτων Βάσεων Δεδομένων", 6η Έκδοση, 2012. Μετάφραση από τις Εκδόσεις Δίαυλος (in Greek).
2. Μανωλόπουλος Ι. και Παπαδόπουλος Α.: "Συστήματα Βάσεων Δεδομένων", Εκδόσεις Νέων Τεχνολογιών, 2006 (in Greek).
3. Ramakrishnan R., Gehrke J.: "Συστήματα Διαχείρισης Βάσεων Δεδομένων", 3η Έκδοση, 2012 (in Greek).

1. A.Silberschatz, H.F. Korth and S. Sudarshan: "Database System Concepts", Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2010.
2. Garcia-Molina H., Ullman J. and Widom J.: "Database Systems: The Complete Book", Prentice Hall Inc., 2002.
3. Date C.J.: "An Introduction to Database Systems", 8th Edition, Addison Wesley-Pearson Education Inc., 2004.

Personal assignments and pair or group assignments, lab practice, regular short assessments in the form of a quiz test, final examination.

Face-to-face.