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Database and Information Systems

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Course Unit Code460-2013/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated7 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites
PrerequisitiesCourse Unit CodeCourse Unit Title
460-2011Data Processing Theory
460-2035Introduction to Database Systems
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
KRA28prof. Ing. Michal Krátký, Ph.D.
Summary
The main topics of this course are as follows: multi-user access to a DBMS (transactions, locking, transactions in SQL and a host language environment), physical implementation of a DBMS (data structures and algorithms applied in a DBMS) and query evaluation (query evaluation plans, optimization of the query evaluation). These topics will be presented for a DBMS like Oracle and SQL Server. The goal of this course is to provide extended informations about query evaluation. A student will use this knowledge during an implementation of a real information system.
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.
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.
Recommended Reading:
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
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit45 (45)24
                TestLaboratory work15 8
                Information System AnalysisSemestral project10 6
                Design and Implementation of ORMSemestral project10 5
                Implementation of UI FormsSemestral project10 5
        ExaminationExamination55 30