Basic education of students from the Information Engineeering in databases. Students gain fundamental knowledge in databases and learn basic techniques of implementation, use and maintenance of databases, with an accent to the applications in the area of data science and big data processing.

Students acquire basic knowledge on ER and relational data models, the SQL language and file organization, which is further used in the practice and specialized courses in: Databases 2, Software Specification and Modeling, Information System Engineering, Business Informatics, and Database Systems.

Databases and their role in the development and exploitation of information systems. Basic notions and concepts in databases, Database management system. Data models. ER data model; Relational data model. Relational algebra. Types of database constraints in relational data model. Functional dependency and the relation scheme key. Fundamentals of database design. The database management system language SQL. Physical data structures and file systems. Methods and process of file organization. Pile, Sequential, Hash, Index-Sequential and Index B-tree file organization. Transaction data processing.

Teaching is performed through lessons, oral and computer exercises (in the computer classroom), as well as consultations. Through the teaching process, students are constantly motivated to an intensive discussion, problem oriented reasoning, independent study work and active participation in the whole lecturing process. The prerequisite to enter final exam is to complete all the pre-exam assignments by earning at least 30 points.