Prior reading on the following will enhance the learning environment and understanding of the subject.

Hence, students are advised doing a revisinon of foundational database management system and
concepts. This includes but is not limited to:

1. File based approaches VS database systems

2. Database systems
2.1. Relations
2.2. Attributes
2.2.1.Key attributes and foreign keys
2.3. Tuples or records
2.4. Relationships
2.5. Integrity constraints
2.5.1.Primary key constraints
2.5.2.Referential integrity constraints
2.5.3.Functional dependency
3. Normalization and Normal Forms
4. Data definition languages and data manipulation languages
4.1. Structured Query language (SQL)
5. Relational algebra and relational calculus