Advanced Database Management Systems
The Relational Model of Data
- Theoretical concepts
- Relational model conformity
Relational Database Management Systems Implementation Techniques
- Query optimisation
- Concurrency control
- Database performance tuning
- Distributed relational systems
Emerging Database Management System Technologies
- Object-oriented, deductive, temporal and constraint database management systems
- New database applications and environments: e.g. Data Warehousing; Multimedia; Mobility; Multidatabases; Internet
Database and Related Standards
- SQL standards, SQL-92 standard, SQL 3 standard
- Object Data Management Group (ODMG) version 2.0 standard
- Standards for interoperability and integration e.g. CORBA