COT7180

Principles of database systems

(IT)

Not offered in 2000

R Simpson

6 points + 4 hours per week + Second semester + Caulfield

Synopsis: Information sources;information management; structured and non-structured information;serial storage media;file organisations;extracting, sorting, merging; updating data; randomly addressable storage;key transforms;file space allocation; disk directories; indexing techniques; indexed and inverted files. Logical data structures.Physical implementations;the database concept;database models;theory and practice of relational database management systems; distributed databases; text storage; retrieval strategies; strategies for archiving information.Recovery, Security. Performance

Assessment: Examination (2 hours): 50% + Practical work, laboratory work and seminar participation: 50%