Database management systems, architecture. Entity-Relationship model. Relational model. Relational algebra and calculus. Query languages. Hierarchical model. Concurrency control, transaction processing, recovery, security.

System analysis and design methodologies. SSADM methodologies. Object-oriented methodologies. Case tools. Client-server applications. Distributed systems. Study cases.

Database management systems. Distributed databases. New standard SQL-3. Database engines. Advanced information systems: Object-oriented database systems, temporal database systems, active database systems, spatial database systems, data warehouses. Logic and database systems: deductive database systems.