This document outlines the contents of a course on relational database management systems. The course contains 5 units that cover the structure of DBMS, entities and attributes, SQL commands, functional dependencies and normalization, and transaction management and concurrency mechanisms. Examples of database applications are provided such as banking, education, railways, hospitals, and defense. The document also lists advantages of DBMS such as scalability and consistency as well as disadvantages of traditional file systems such as data redundancy, storage issues, and difficulty searching.