Contents

1. Introduction To RDBMS

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Introduction to popular RDBMS product and their features

1.3 Difference between DBMS and RDBMS

1.4 Relationship among application programs, RDBMS

2. PL / SQL

2.1 Overview of PL/SQL

2.2 Data types

2.3 PL/SQL block

2.4 Exceptional handling

2.5 Functions, procedures

2.6 Cursor

2.7 Database triggers

2.8 Oracle packages

3. Transaction Management

3.1 Transaction concept

3.2 Transaction properties:

3.3 Transaction states

3.4 Concurrent execution

3.5 Serializability

3.6 Recoverability

4. Concurrency Control

4.1 Concurrency control

4.2 Lock based protocols

4.3 Timestamp – based protocols

4.4 Validation – based protocols

4.5 Deadlock handling

5. Recovery System

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Failure classification

5.3 Storage structure

5.4 Recovery and atomicity

5.5 Recovery with concurrent transactions

5.6 Remote backup systems

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