Introduction (31 August 2001)

Disks and Files (3 & 5 September 2001)

Entity Relationship Model (5 & 7 September 2001)

Relational Model (10 & 12 September)

Relational Algebra (12 & 14 September)

Relational Calculus (14 & 17 September)

SQL (19, 21 & 24 September)

File Organization and Indexing (26 September)

Tree Structured Indices (28 September & 1 October)

Hash Indices (1 October)

External Sorting (10 October)

Evaluation of Relational Operators: Part A (12 October), Part B (15 & 17 October)

Introduction to Query Optimization (22 October)

A Typical Query Optimizer (24 & 26 October)

Schema Refinement and Normal Forms (29 & 31 October, 2 November)

Physical Database Design and Database Tuning (7 November)

Security (12 November)

Introduction to Transaction Management (14 November)

Concurrency Control (16 & 19 November)

Recovery (26 & 28 November)

Parallel Databases (30 November)

Distributed Databases (3 December)

Decision Support (5 December)