Timetable

Jan 19

Introduction and class overview.

Jan 24, 26, 31, Feb 2

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

Feb 7, 9, 14, 16, 21

Query processing and optimization. Ch. 12-15.

Feb 23, 28, Mar 2

Transactions, concurrency control. Ch. 16-17.

Mar 7

Overflow material, review.

Mar 9

Midterm exam date.

Mar 21

Crash recovery. Ch. 18.

Mar 23, 28

Performance considerations beyond I/O.

Mar 30, Apr 4, 6, 11

Parallel and Distributed Databases. Ch. 22.

Apr 13, 18

Object-Relational query processing. Ch. 23.8.

Apr 20, 25

Materialized Views. Ch. 25.9, 25.10.

Apr 27

Overflow material.

May 2

Revision.