To develop the knowledge and skills to manage and tune database management systems

To provide experience the technologies of a variety of database architectures including: relational, object-oriented, object-relational and multidimensional databases, and to apply this knowledge to DBMS selection according to application requirements

To develop the abilities required to exploit an enterprise’s data resources to maximize business advantage.

Database administration› Data policies› DBMS selection› Data management with XML technologies› Query analysis and tuning› Concurrency management

Business intelligence› Data warehouses and data marts› Multi-dimensional databases› OLAP and data mining

Object database systems› ODMG databases

the object model, ODL and schema design OQL, query processing and language bindings

› Object-Relational Systems the "universal server" OO extensions to SQL

Advanced database technology› IBM’S DB2, Microsoft's SQL Server 2005,

Matisse Mix of theory and practice Assessment

› Case study-based integrative assignment (40%)

› Exam (60%)