Fundamentals of Database Systems

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Use the Fundamentals of Database Systems course and lab to learn database concepts and methodologies. Lab simulates real-world, hardware, software, and command-line interface environments and can be mapped to any textbook, course, and training.

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Use the Fundamentals of Database Systems course and lab to learn database concepts and methodologies. Lab simulates real-world hardware, software, and command-line interface environments and can be mapped to any textbook, course, or training.

The database training course covers fundamental concepts necessary for designing, using, and implementing database systems and applications; database modeling and design; languages and models provided by database management systems; and database system implementation techniques.

 

Lesson 1: Preface

 

Lesson 2: Databases and Database Users

  • Introduction

  • An Example

  • Characteristics of the Database Approach

  • Actors on the Scene

  • Workers behind the Scene

  • Advantages of Using the DBMS Approach

  • A Brief History of Database Applications

  • When Not to Use a DBMS

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lesson 3: Database System Concepts and Architecture

  • Data Models, Schemas, and Instances

  • Three-Schema Architecture and Data Independence

  • Database Languages and Interfaces

  • The Database System Environment

  • Centralized and Client/Server Architectures for DBMSs

  • Classification of Database Management Systems

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 4: Data Modeling Using the Entity-Relationship (ER) Model

  • Using High-Level Conceptual Data Models for Database Design

  • A Sample Database Application

  • Entity Types, Entity Sets, Attributes, and Keys

  • Relationship Types, Relationship Sets, Roles, and Structural Constraints

  • Weak Entity Types

  • Refining the ER Design for the COMPANY Database

  • ER Diagrams, Naming Conventions, and Design Issues

  • Example of Other Notation: UML Class Diagrams

  • Relationship Types of Degree Higher than Two

  • Another Example: A UNIVERSITY Database

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Laboratory Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lesson 5: The Enhanced Entity-Relationship (EER) Model

  • Subclasses, Superclasses, and Inheritance

  • Specialization and Generalization

  • Constraints and Characteristics of Specialization and Generalization Hierarchies

  • Modeling of Unit Types Using Categories

  • A Sample UNIVERSITY EER Schema, Design Choices, and Formal Definitions

  • Example of Other Notation: Representing Specialization and Generalization in UML Class Diagrams

  • Data Abstraction, Knowledge Representation, and Ontology Concepts

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Laboratory Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lesson 6: The Relational Data Model and Relational Database Constraints

  • Relational Model Concepts

  • Relational Model Constraints and Relational Database Schemas

  • Update Operations, Transactions, and Dealing with Constraint Violations

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

essons 7: SQL Data Definition and Data Types

  • SQL Data Definition and Data Types

  • Specifying Constraints in SQL

  • Basic Retrieval Queries in SQL

  • INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE Statements in SQL

  • Additional Features of SQL

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lesson 8: More SQL: Complex Queries, Triggers, Views, and Schema Modification

  • More Complex SQL Retrieval Queries

  • Specifying Constraints as Assertions and Actions as Triggers

  • Views (Virtual Tables) in SQL

  • Schema Change Statements in SQL

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lesson 9: Relational Algebra and Relational Calculus

  • Unary Relational Operations: SELECT and PROJECT

  • Relational Algebra Operations from Set Theory

  • Binary Relational Operations: JOIN and DIVISION

  • Additional Relational Operations

  • Examples of Queries in Relational Algebra

  • The Tuple Relational Calculus

  • The Domain Relational Calculus

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Laboratory Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 10: Relational Database Design by ER- and EER-to-Relational Mapping

  • Relational Database Design Using ER-to-Relational Mapping

  • Mapping EER Model Constructs to Relationships

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Laboratory Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 11: Introduction to SQL Programming Techniques

  • Overview of Database Programming Techniques and Issues

  • Embedded SQL, Dynamic SQL, and SQL J

  • Database Programming with Function Calls and Class Libraries: SQL/CLI and JDBC

  • Database-stored procedures and SQL/PSM

  • Comparing the Three Approaches

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lesson 12: Web Database Programming Using PHP

  • A Simple PHP Example

  • Overview of Basic Features of PHP

  • Overview of PHP Database Programming

  • Brief Overview of Java Technologies for Database Web Programming

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 13: Object and Object-Relational Databases

  • Overview of Object Database Concepts

  • Object Database Extensions to SQL

  • The ODMG Object Model and the Object Definition Language ODL

  • Object Database Conceptual Design

  • The Object Query Language OQL

  • Overview of the C++ Language Binding in the ODMG Standard

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 14: XML: Extensible Markup Language

  • Structured, Semistructured, and Unstructured Data

  • XML Hierarchical (Tree) Data Model

  • XML Documents, DTD, and XML Schema

  • Storing and Extracting XML Documents from Databases

  • XML Languages

  • Extracting XML Documents from Relational Databases

  • XML/SQL: SQL Functions for Creating XML Data

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 15: Basics of Functional Dependencies and Normalization for Relational Databases

  • Informal Design Guidelines for Relationship Schemas

  • Functional Dependencies

  • Normal Forms Based on Primary Keys

  • General Definitions of Second and Third Normal Forms

  • Boyce-Codd Normal Form

  • Multivalued Dependency and Fourth Normal Form

  • Join Dependencies and Fifth Normal Form

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercise

  • Laboratory Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lesson 16: Relational Database Design Algorithms and Further Dependencies

  • Further Topics in Functional Dependencies: Inference Rules, Equivalence, and Minimal Cover

  • Properties of Relational Decompositions

  • Algorithms for Relational Database Schema Design

  • About Nulls, Dangling Tuples, and Alternative Relational Designs

  • Further Discussion of Multivalued Dependencies and 4NF

  • Other Dependencies and Normal Forms

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Laboratory Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 17: Disk Storage, Basic File Structures, Hashing, and Modern Storage Architectures

  • Introduction

  • Secondary Storage Devices

  • Buffering of Blocks

  • Placing File Records on Disk

  • Operations on Files

  • Files of Unordered Records (Heap Files)

  • Files of Ordered Records (Sorted Files)

  • Hashing Techniques

  • Other Primary File Organizations

  • Parallelizing Disk Access Using RAID Technology

  • Modern Storage Architectures

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 18: Indexing Structures for Files and Physical Database Design

  • Types of Single-Level Ordered Indexes

  • Multilevel Indexes

  • Dynamic Multilevel Indexes Using B-Trees and B+-Trees

  • Indexes on Multiple Keys

  • Other Types of Indexes

  • Some General Issues Concerning Indexing

  • Physical Database Design in Relational Databases

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 19: Strategies for Query Processing

  • Translating SQL Queries into Relational Algebra and Other Operators

  • Algorithms for External Sorting

  • Algorithms for SELECT Operation

  • Implementing the JOIN Operation

  • Algorithms for PROJECT and Set Operations

  • Implementing Aggregate Operations and Different Types of JOINs

  • Combining Operations Using Pipelining

  • Parallel Algorithms for Query Processing

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 20: Query Optimization

  • Query Trees and Heuristics for Query Optimization

  • Choice of Query Execution Plans

  • Use of Selectivities in Cost-Based Optimization

  • Cost Functions for SELECT Operation

  • Cost Functions for the JOIN Operation

  • Example to Illustrate Cost-Based Query Optimization

  • Additional Issues Related to Query Optimization

  • An Example of Query Optimization in Data Warehouses

  • Overview of Query Optimization in Oracle

  • Semantic Query Optimization

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 21: Introduction to Transaction Processing Concepts and Theory

  • Introduction to Transaction Processing

  • Transaction and System Concepts

  • Desirable Properties of Transactions

  • Characterizing Schedules Based on Recoverability

  • Characterizing Schedules Based on Serializability

  • Transaction Support in SQL

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 22: Concurrency Control Techniques

  • Two-Phase Locking Techniques for Concurrency Control

  • Concurrency Control Based on Timestamp Ordering

  • Multiversion Concurrency Control Techniques

  • Validation (Optimistic) Techniques and Snapshot Isolation Concurrency Control

  • Granularity of Data Items and Multiple Granularity Locking

  • Using Locks for Concurrency Control in Indexes

  • Other Concurrency Control Issues

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 23: Database Recovery Techniques

  • Recovery Concepts

  • NO-UNDO/REDO Recovery Based on Deferred Update

  • Recovery Techniques Based on Immediate Update

  • Shadow Paging

  • The ARIES Recovery Algorithm

  • Recovery in Multidatabase Systems

  • Database Backup and Recovery from Catastrophic Failures

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercises

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 24: Distributed Database Concepts

  • Distributed Database Concepts

  • Data Fragmentation, Replication, and Allocation Techniques for Distributed Database Design

  • Overview of Concurrency Control and Recovery in Distributed Databases

  • Overview of Transaction Management in Distributed Databases

  • Query Processing and Optimization in Distributed Databases

  • Types of Distributed Database Systems

  • Distributed Database Architectures

  • Distributed Catalog Management

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 25: NOSQL Databases and Big Data Storage Systems

  • Introduction to NOSQL Systems

  • The CAP Theorem

  • Document-Based NOSQL Systems and MongoDB

  • NOSQL Key-Value Stores

  • Column-Based or Wide Column NOSQL Systems

  • NOSQL Graph Databases and Neo4j

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 26: Big Data Technologies Based on MapReduce and Hadoop

  • What Is Big Data?

  • Introduction to MapReduce and Hadoop

  • Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

  • MapReduce: Additional Details

  • Hadoop v2 alias YARN

  • General Discussion

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 27: Enhanced Data Models: Introduction to Active, Temporal, Spatial, Multimedia, and Deductive Databases

  • Active Database Concepts and Triggers

  • Temporal Database Concepts

  • Spatial Database Concepts

  • Multimedia Database Concepts

  • Introduction to Deductive Databases

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Exercise

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 28: Introduction to Information Retrieval and Web Search

  • Information Retrieval (IR) Concepts

  • Retrieval Models

  • Types of Queries in IR Systems

  • Text Preprocessing

  • Inverted Indexing

  • Evaluation Measures of Search Relevance

  • Web Search and Analysis

  • Trends in Information Retrieval

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 29: Data Mining Concepts

  • Overview of Data Mining Technology

  • Association Rules

  • Classification

  • Clustering

  • Approaches to Other Data Mining Problems

  • Applications of Data Mining

  • Commercial Data Mining Tools

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 30: Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP

  • Introduction, Definitions, and Terminology

  • Characteristics of Data Warehouses

  • Data Modeling for Data Warehouses

  • Building a Data Warehouse

  • Typical Functionality of a Data Warehouse

  • Data Warehouse versus Views

  • Difficulties of Implementing Data Warehouses

  • Summary

  • Review Questions

  • Selected Bibliography

 

Lessons 31: Database Security

  • Introduction to Database Security Issues

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