We had two books when I was doing my bachelors in CS many moons ago (late 90's). One was by Silberschatz & Galvin and the other by Ullman. The first one was use

We had two books when I was doing my bachelors in CS many moons ago (late 90's). One was by Silberschatz & Galvin and the other by Ullman. The first one was used for relational algebra, various normal forms and introducing table design, keys, constraints,etc. The second was used to teach the theory for internals on how a DB is implemented - B+ trees, deadlock handling, etc, etc. That was a hard course and it was mandatory. I can see not electing to have databases as a course for masters though. Masters is to allow you to specialize and be more choice driven.