This course is for students interested in advanced database design and implementation. The course will quickly cover relational databases and then move into a discussion of more advanced topics in modern database systems including object-oriented database management systems (OODBMS), object-relational database management systems (ORDBMS), XML databases, distributed databases, and on-line analytical processing. Further, we shall discuss about various data description and query languages, database design, and query processing and optimization and also introduce concepts such as distributed object-model, data mining and data warehouses.

The basic requirement for this course is a good understanding of the basic and fundamental database and software engineering concepts.