FI:P055 Advanced Database Technology

P055 Advanced Database Technology

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 1998

Extent and Intensity

2/1. 3 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Keith G. Jeffery (lecturer)

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Syllabus

Relational Database Technology has matured into production systems for business, commerce and technology. However, there are many classes of application problems that require more from an information system.
Relational Database Management Systems lack expressivity in query language and representativity in data structures. The lecture covers the basics of database technology but from a point of view that leads to discussions of advanced technology. The systems development process with respect to database systems is described and the information loss during the process revealed. A discussion of object-oriented, deductive and extended relational technology leads to a discussion of leading edge and future systems utilising these technologies in an integrated architecture together with office systems, hypermedia and parallel, distributed topologies. The ultimate problem of end-user representation (through hyperlinked multimedia) of answers to complex queries across heterogeneous distributed database systems is discussed.

Language of instruction

Czech

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 1996, Spring 1997, Spring 2001, Spring 2002.