Databases and Database Users -- Database System Concepts and Architecture -- Data Modeling Using the Entity-Relationship (ER) Model -- The Enhanced Entity-Relationship (EER) Model -- The Relational Data Model and Relational Database Constraints -- Basic SQL -- More SQL: Complex Queries, Triggers, Views, and Schema Modification -- The Relational Algebra and Relational Calculus -- Relational Database Design by ER- and EER-to-Relational Mapping -- Introduction to SQL Programming Techniques -- Web Database Programming Using PHP -- Object and Object-Relational Databases -- XML: Extensible Markup Language -- Basics of Functional Dependencies and Normalization for Relational Databases -- Relational Database Design Algorithms and Further Dependencies -- Disk Storage, Basic File Structures, Hashing, and Modern Storage Architectures -- Indexing Structures for Files and Physical Database Design -- Strategies for Query Processing -- Query Optimization -- Introduction to Transaction Processing Concepts and Theory -- Concurrency Control Techniques -- Database Recovery Techniques -- Distributed Database Concepts -- NOSQL Databases and Big Data Storage Systems -- Big Data Technologies Based on MapReduce and Hadoop -- Enhanced Data Models: Introduction to Active, Temporal, Spatial, Multimedia, and Deductive Databases -- Introduction to Information Retrieval and Web Search -- Data Mining Concepts -- Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP -- Database Security -- Appendix A, Alternative Diagrammatic Notations for ER Models -- Appendix B, Parameters of Discs -- Appendix C, Overview of the QBE Language -- Appendix D, Overview of the Hierarchical Data Models -- Appendix E, Overview of the Network Data Model.