Introduction

    Tasks and principles of database systems
    Architecture of database systems

Part 1: Memory models and access paths

    Background memory management
    buffer management
    File organization and access structures
    Special index structures

Part 2: Inquiry processing

    Basic algorithms for database operations
    Optimization of requests
    Logical Optimization
    Internal optimization and cost-based plan selection

Part 3: Transaction Processing and Recovery

    transaction models
    transaction management
    Recovery and backup

Part 4: Current developments

    Modern database system architectures

Appendix: Current example