MIT Database Systems Course
This MIT
Database
Systems course introduces
graduate students to the foundations of database systems, focusing on
basics such as the relational algebra and data model, schema
normalization, query optimization, and transactions. The course
features an extensive set of lecture
notes and problem sets with solutions in the assignments
section. In addition, exams
are available.
Database Lecture Topics:
1)
Introduction
2)
The
Relational Model
3) Schema
Normalization
4) Database
Design
5) Indexing
and Access Methods
6) Buffer
Pool Design and Memory Management
7) Join
Algorithms
Query
Optimization
9) Introduction
to Transaction Processing
10) Recovery
11)
Optimistic
Concurrency Control
12) Recovery
(cont.)
13) Degrees
of Locking
14) Distributed
Databases
15) Distributed
Transactions
16) Replication
in Database Systems
17) Search
Engines
18) Stream
Processing
19) Adaptive
Query Processing
20) Online
Query Processing
21) Sensor
Networks
22) XML
and Semantic Web
23) XML
Assignments:
Problem
Set 1: (PDF)
Solutions: (PDF)
Problem
Set 2: (PDF)
Solutions: (PDF)
Supporting File: 6.830-ps2.tar.gz (GZ)
Problem
Set 3: (PDF) Supporting
File: TransactionTest.java (Java)
The
Quizzes for the course, along with study questions,
are
provided below.
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