Course Outline :

1. Brief introduction to new features in relational

databases (such as object relational facilities)

2. Storage devices and file organizations

3. Query processing

4. Query optimization

5. Transaction facility

6. Concurrency

7. Recovery

8. Concurrency and recovery in parallel and distributed databases

These will be followed by seminars (assigned as reading asignments !) on selected topics

We will use Oracle8i as a case study whenever possible.

Oracle8i documentation is available on-line