Timetable

Jan 20

Introduction and class overview.

Jan 22, 27, 29, Feb 3

Storage methods, index structures. Ch. 8-11, 25.6.

Feb 5, 10, 12, 17, 19

Query processing and optimization. Ch. 12-15.

Feb 24, 26, Mar 3, 5

Transactions, concurrency control, recovery. Ch. 16-18.

Mar 10

Overflow material, review.

Mar 12

Midterm exam date.

Mar 24, 26

Object-Relational query processing. Ch. 23.8.

Mar 31, Apr 2, 7, 9

Parallel and Distributed Databases. Ch. 22.

Apr 14, 16, 21

Materialized Views. Ch. 25.9, 25.10.

Apr 23

Performance considerations beyond I/O.

Apr 28

Overflow material.

Apr 30

Revision.