Description Becoming familiar with the structure of database management system selected to study in the current semester. Metadata management (planning and implementation of easy access to integrated metadata of high quality). Data-centered activities in software development life cycle (SDLC): analysis and planning of data requirement, maintaining the database, solution components related to data). Database accessibility, levels of service. Database administration, tasks of database administrators. The role of indexes, indexing. Data quality management. Database monitoring, technologies of backup, recovery, and tuning. Log management. Current industrial trends and their impacts. Competences - his/her knowledge covers the main concepts of data management - he/she can use his/her knowledge about data management in practice. - he/she accepts, and adapts to the requirement of the ethical standards, work and organizational cultures - he/she is responsible for his/her professional activates in a group or alone Compulsory readings - Mullins: Database Administration, Addison-Wesley, 2013, ISBN 978-0201741292 - Keith Gordon: Principles of Data Management, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 2013, ISBN 9781780171845 Recommended readings - Mullins: Database Administration, Addison-Wesley, 2013, ISBN 978-0201741292 - Keith Gordon: Principles of Data Management, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 2013, ISBN 9781780171845