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Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleNumber of ECTS Credits Allocated
460-2013/02Database and Information Systems7 ECTS credits
Type of Course UnitChoice-compulsory
Level of Course UnitFirst Cycle
Year of StudySecond Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech, English
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites
PrerequisitiesCourse Unit CodeCourse Unit Title
456-0526Data Processing Theory
460-2011Data Processing Theory
460-2035Introduction to Database Systems
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
KRA28doc. Ing. Michal Krátký, Ph.D.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The goal of this course is to provide extended information to bachelor students about the database technology with respect to the information system creation. Student will be able to implement an information system with complicated data layer using capabilities of modern RDBMS.
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Common optional components are not offered, students of special interest can participate in departmental activities or can arrange consulting hours with lecturer.
Course Contents
Syllabus of lectures:
- Transactions (1 lecture)
Introduction, architecture of a DBMS, paralelization on various layers of a DBMS (pages, records, relations, ...)
- Concurrency control (3 lectures)
ACID; serializability; locking, deadlock, locking efficiency; lockless concurrency control; recovery manager (log, recovery, undo and redo phases)
- Transaction support in SQL and host language environments (3 lectures)
Transactions in SQL and PL/SQL, the transaction support in host language environments like ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET
- Physical implementation of a DBMS (2 lectures)
Introduction, persistent data structures, pages, clustering; B-tree, hashing, R-tree; a paralelization of data structures
- SQL query evaluation and optimization of the query evaluation (1 lectures)
Query evaluation plan; optimization; sorting, implementation of the join operation
- Data layer implementation (JDBC, ADO.NET)
- Sample application (J2EE, ASP.NET)

Syllabus of computer exercises:
- Introductions
- Transactions in SQL and PL/SQL (3 practices)
- Transaction support in host language environments like ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET (2 practices)
- Physical implementation of a DBMS (3 practices)
- SQL query evaluation and optimization of the query evaluation (2 practices)
- Tuning of an SQL query evaluation (1 practices)
- Data layer implementation
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Garcia-Molina, J.D. Ullman, J.D. Widom. Database Systems: The Complete Book. Prentice Hall, 2001.
S.S. Lightstone, T.J. Teorey, T. Nadeau: Physical Database Design: the database professional's guide to exploiting indexes, views, storage, and more. Morgan Kaufmann, 2007.
* J. Pokorný, I. Halaška: Databázové systémy. 2. vyd. Praha: Vydavatelství ČVUT, 2003. 148 s. ISBN 80-01-02789-9.
* J. Pokorný: Dotazovací jazyky. Karolinum, 2002. 255 s. ISBN 80-246-0497-3.
* C.J. Date: An Introduction to Database Systems. Addison Wesley, 8th Edition, 2003.
* H. Garcia-Molina, J.D. Ullman, J.D. Widom. Database Systems: The Complete Book. Prentice Hall, 2001.
* J. Pokorný: Základy implementace souborů a databází. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 1997. 196 s. ISBN 80-7184-472-1.
* S.S. Lightstone, T.J. Teorey, T. Nadeau: Physical Database Design: the database professional's guide to exploiting indexes, views, storage, and more. Morgan Kaufmann, 2007.
* M. Krátký, R. Bača: Databázové systémy. http://dbedu.cs.vsb.cz/. leden, 2009.
* J. Pokorný, I. Halaška: Databázové systémy. 2. vyd. Praha: Vydavatelství ČVUT, 2003. 148 s. ISBN 80-01-02789-9.
* J. Pokorný: Dotazovací jazyky. Karolinum, 2002. 255 s. ISBN 80-246-0497-3.
* J. Pokorný: Základy implementace souborů a databází. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 1997. 196 s. ISBN 80-7184-472-1.
* Dokumentace k SŘBD Oracle
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Experimental work in labs, Project work
Assesment methods and criteria
Tasks are not Defined
Work placement(s)
Course does not contain work placement.

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