Overview of database management systems -- Data and its representation in database systems -- Tools and methods for conceptual design -- Process of database planning and development -- Airline database: Conceptual design case -- Introduction to relational tables and SQL retrieval -- Implementing a relational database -- Client-server application development -- Embedded SQL programming for client-server applications -- Control and administration of database systems -- Physical data organization for database systems -- Distributed database systems -- Object-oriented database systems -- Hierarchical model: IMS -- Network data model -- Glossary.