Introduction to Database Systems

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Guest Lecture

In the lecture on Wednesday April 9, Jack Ramsay from Accenture will talk about off-shoring IT development to India.

Contents

This lecture presents the basic tools required for the development of database applications. The focus is on relational database systems and applications that can be built using relational database technology.

The following topics will be covered: E/R and UML modelling, the relational data model, relational design theory (normal forms), SQL, database intregrity, security, a brief introduction to transactions and data warehousing (OLAP).

Lecture

Wed 10-12 HG E 3

Lecture notes / Exercises / Project

See here

Goal

Good understanding of relational database systems. Ability to use database systems to develop database applications.

Lecturer

Prof. Dr. Donald Kossmann

Teaching Assistant

• Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili (kyumarss at inf dot ethz dot ch)
  
• Martin Hentschel (hemartin at inf dot ethz dot ch)
  
• Christoph Lins (clins at student dot ethz dot ch)
• Stefan Hildenbrand (stefanhi at ethz dot ch)
  

Language

German

Literature

Kemper, Eickler: Datenbanksysteme: Eine Einführung. Oldenbourg Verlag, 6. Auflage, 2006

Elmasri, Navathe: Grundlagen von Datenbanksystemen (Ausgabe Grundstudium). Pearson Studium, 3. Auflage, 2005.