OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES

Overview

Lecturer

Adriana Bîrluțiu

Seminar tutor

Adriana Bîrluțiu

Type of course

Compulsory

Language of instruction

English

Erasmus language

English

Domain

Computer Science - Masters

Field of study

Advanced programming and databases

Form of education

Full-time

Form of instruction

Class

Credit awarded by

Grade

Teaching methods

Lecture, conversation, exemplification.

Entry requirements

Databases.

Aims

This course introduces fundamental concepts and implementation of object oriented database systems with focus on data distribution, query processing, transaction processing, concurrency control and recovery.

Incorporation of the object oriented model in the database management systems, exploiting the advantages of using this model

Ensuring the integrity, identity, security and persistence of data within object oriented databases

Identification of differences and similarities between relational databases and databases object oriented.

Deepening the principles of design, development and operation of management systems a object-oriented databases.

Course contents

 Introduction, Concepts and Definitions  Normalization Techniques  Data Mining and Data warehouse  Transaction Processing  Concurrency Control  Distributed Databases  Database Security  Temporal database  Oracle system architecture  Updating an Oracle database  PL/SQL Language  Oracle Utilities  Oracle From Builder

Learning outcomes

 Apply normalization techniques.  Understand how transactions are processed in a database.  Discuss/explain the concepts of Distributed Databases and Data Warehousing.  Discuss/explain some database security issues.  Tune and Optimize some Database Applications.

Assessment

Written exam – 50%; continuous assessment – 50%.

Overview

Aims

Course contents

Learning outcomes

Assessment

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