CS 740 lecture notes


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  • 09/10 Introduction, goals of the course,
  • 09/19 Relations, Files, Records, etc., Index Structures, chapters 2-3
  • 09/26 More on Indices, Query Processing, chapters 4,6 (cont), Asignment 1
  • 10/03 Query Processing, chapter 6, Query Execution Survey
  • 10/10 Language Processing, Schema and Catalogs, XML writeup, Asignment 2
  • 10/17 Query Optimization Answering Queries using Views
  • 10/24 Query Optimization chapter 7, Relational Query Opt. Survey, Volcano: Query Optimizer Generator
  • 10/31 Schema II more on DLs, Query Subsumption via DL (in OO), Asignment 3
  • 11/07 Concurrency and Recovery chapters 8 and 9,
  • 11/14 Parallel, Distributed, Client-server, etc. chapter 10,
  • 11/21 Information Integration chapter 11,
  • 11/28 slack

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