Introduction to Databases | Database Tutorial 1

This is the first introductory lecture of our databases course with an overview of important concepts in relational databases: database management systems (DBMS), the ANSI-SPARC architecture, physical and logical data independence, the relational model, database schemas and instances, the structured query language (SQL), integrity constraints (not null, unique, primary keys, foreign keys, check constraints), ACID properties (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability), conceptual design (entity-relationship models / ER models).

This is the databases online course given at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam by Jörg Endrullis. The course objective is to obtain a good understanding of relational database systems from the user perspective. This includes the ability to develop conceptual database models, as well as key concepts and skills in relational database theory and practice.

Among others, we treat in this course the following subjects:
(a) entity–relationship diagrams for the design of database schemata,
(b) the relational database model and integrity constraints,
(c) SQL (structured query language) for retrieving information from relational databases,
(d) database normalisation and functiona dependencies (reasoning about good database design),
(e) transactions and concurrency control.

The slides are based on work by Peter Boncz and Torsten Grust.