1. Advanced Course on Databases (Tietokantojen jatkokurssi)
Jukka Teuhola
Dept. of Information Technology
University of Turku
Fall 2015, period 1
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2. General Lecturer: Jukka Teuhola, email: jukka.teuhola (at) utu.fi
Form: Self-study course Starting lecture: Tue at 8:15-10:00 (Beta)
Homework: 10 exercise tasks
Individual solutions must be submitted before the exam
Minimum: 50% of the solutions must be ‘acceptable’
Examinations: , Jan 2016, Feb 2016
Preliminary knowledge: Basic course on databases (Databases I-II in the department’s curriculum).
Course webpage:
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3. Main themes of the course
Database management systems: Features, functions and implementation (Chapters 2-6)
Database ’trends’: Object-orientation, distribution, data warehouses, semi-structured databases, ... (Chapters 7-)
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4. Assumed preliminary knowledge
General database principles
Relational data model
SQL
Relational algebra
Relational database design
File organizations
Index structures
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5. Course material
Slides:
Textbook: R. Elmasri, S.B. Navathe: "Fundamentals of Database Systems", 6th ed., Pearson/Addison-Wesley, (The 4th and 5th editions are suitable, as well.)
The individual chapters are given below. They should be consulted to the extent that is necessary to understand the topics in slides.
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6. Contents and related book sections
Lecture chapter Edition 3rd 4th th th
2. Query processing and opt
3. Transaction processing
4. Concurrency control
5. Recovery techniques
6. Database security
7. Object-oriented databases
8. Special database types
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