DBMS Tutorial
Understand how databases really work: ER design, keys, normal forms, transactions, indexing and recovery, with SQL you can run.
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Getting Started Beginner
- 1DBMS Introduction
- 2File Systems vs DBMS
- 3DBMS Architecture & Data Independence
- 4Data Models, Schemas & Instances
The ER Model Beginner
- 5ER Model: Entities & Attributes
- 6Relationships, Cardinality & Participation
- 7Weak Entities, Generalisation & Aggregation
- 8Converting an ER Diagram to Tables
The Relational Model Beginner
- 9The Relational Model
- 10Keys: Super, Candidate, Primary, Foreign & Alternate
- 11Integrity Constraints
- 12Relational Algebra: Select, Project & Set Operations
- 13Relational Algebra: Joins & Division
- 14Relational Calculus
- 15SQL: The Practical Side of DBMS
Normalisation Intermediate
- 16Functional Dependencies
- 17Attribute Closure & Canonical Cover
- 18Normal Forms: 1NF, 2NF & 3NF
- 19BCNF, 4NF & 5NF
- 20Lossless Join & Dependency Preservation
Transactions & Concurrency Intermediate
- 21Transactions & ACID Properties
- 22Schedules, Serialisability & Recoverability
- 23Concurrency Control: Locks & Two-Phase Locking
- 24Timestamp Ordering & Deadlocks
- 25Recovery: Logs, Checkpoints & Shadow Paging
Storage, Indexing & Queries Advanced
Beyond One Database Advanced
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