FI:PA152 Efficient Use of DB Systems

PA152 Efficient Use of Database Systems

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2011

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

Timetable

Thu 12:00–13:50 D3

Prerequisites

PB154 Database Systems || PB155 Database Systems Applications || PB168 Introduction to DB and IS
PV062 File Organization is recommended and one of the courses PB154, PB155, PB168 is required.

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

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Course objectives

The aim of this course is to teach students principles of database systems from the perspective of physical database design, optimization and tuning.

Syllabus

Introduction
Data storage: efficient use of secondary storage, records, blocks. Searching: index structures, sequential files, trees, hashing, multidimensional indexes.
Query execution: evaluation plan, algebraic laws, cost estimation, algorithms for operators, sorting and joining relations, query execution and pipelining.
Query optimization: contribution of indexes, referential integrity, materialized views, table partitioning, disk storage.
Database optimization: relational schema tuning, index optimization, database monitoring tools.
Transaction management: properties and their implementation, concurrency control, scheduling, data and index locking, logging and recovery from failures.
Database security: access rights, data security. Spatial databases: indexes, operators. Analytical tools.

Literature

recommended literature

SILBERSCHATZ, Abraham, Henry F. KORTH and S. SUDARSHAN. Database system concepts. 5th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2006, xxvi, 1142. ISBN 0072958863. info
GARCIA-MOLINA, Hector, Jeffrey D. ULLMAN and Jennifer WIDOM. Database system implementation. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2000, xv, 653 s. ISBN 0-13-040264-8. info

Teaching methods

Lectures with slides.

Assessment methods

Lectures, homework, written exam.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.