The textbook examines and analyzes: databases and DBMS, data and computers, database concept, DBMS architecture, infological, datological and physical data models, date types of logical data models, data presentation using the model " Entity-Relationship, Entity-Relationship diagram, data integrity. An overview of the notation used to build the entity-link diagrams is given. In detail: relational databases, operations with relational database tables, relational relationship generation rules from entity to link model. The following sections are presented in detail: fast data access tools, SQL language, physical database organization, client-server architecture, distributed data processing and database server structure. The textbook also formulates conceptual bases of the concept "knowledge", sets out concepts and definitions of knowledge, knowledge bases, models of representation of knowledge. Here are the principles of building systems for data analysis-data warehousing, data models used in building data warehouses. The tutorial ends with the consideration of data protection issues.