Course details

Advanced Database Systems

PDB Acad. year 2010/2011 Winter semester 5 credits

Current academic year

Guarantor

Kolář Dušan, doc. Dr. Ing. (DIFS)

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Credit+Examination

Time span

  • 26 hrs lectures
  • 6 hrs exercises
  • 6 hrs pc labs
  • 14 hrs projects

Department

Department of Information Systems (UIFS)

Study literature

  • Kim, W. (ed.): Modern Database Systems, ACM Press, 1995, ISBN 0-201-59098-0
  • Melton, J.: Advanced SQL: 1999 - Understanding Object-Relational and Other Advanced. Morgan Kaufmann, 2002, p. 562, ISBN 1-558-60677-7
  • Shekhar, S., Chawla, S.: Spatial Databases: A Tour, Prentice Hall, 2002/2003, p. 262, ISBN 0-13-017480-7
  • Dunckley, L.: Multimedia Databases: An Object-Relational Approach. Pearson Education, 2003, p. 464, ISBN 0-201-78899-3

Fundamental literature

  • Kim, W. (ed.): Modern Database Systems, ACM Press, 1995, ISBN 0-201-59098-0
  • Melton, J.: Advanced SQL: 1999 - Understanding Object-Relational and Other Advanced. Morgan Kaufmann, 2002, p. 562, ISBN 1-558-60677-7
  • Shekhar, S., Chawla, S.: Spatial Databases: A Tour, Prentice Hall, 2002/2003, p. 262, ISBN 0-13-017480-7
  • Dunckley, L.: Multimedia Databases: An Object-Relational Approach. Pearson Education, 2003, p. 464, ISBN 0-201-78899-3
  • Gaede, V., Günther, O.: Multidimensional Access Methods, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 30, No. 2, 1998, pp. 170-231.

Syllabus of lectures

  1. Introduction, post-relational database definition, used terms
  2. Object-relational database systems, standard SQL/99
  3. Spatial database systems, introduction
  4. Modelling of spatial database systems
  5. Querying in spatial database systems
  6. Algorithms used in spatial database systems
  7. Image and multimedia database systems
  8. Temporal database systems, introduction
  9. Temporal data models
  10. Algorithms used in temporal database systems
  11. Deductive databases, introduction
  12. Models and implementation of deductive database systems
  13. Conclusion, comparison of various database systems, open items discussion

Syllabus of computer exercises

  1. Introduction to used DB system (Oracle), simple post-relational database creation
  2. Manipulation techniques for post-relational data - simple queries
  3. More complicated queries
  4. Another kind of queries
  5. Connection to DB via JDBC
  6. Demonstration of Java client
  7. Project demonstration

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