CIS 761. Database Management Systems, Spring 2008

We have covered the following material from the 5th edition of Abraham Silberschatz and Henry F. Korth and S. Sudarshan, Database System Concepts.

Chapters 1-5

with the following omission:

• Sections 4.5 & 4.8

Chapters 6-7

with the following omission:

• Section 6.11
• Section 7.9

Chapters 12-14

with the following omission:

• Section 14.4.4

Chapters 15-16

with the following omission:

• Sections 16.6 -- 16.9

Chapter 18

• a condition for lossless joins
• "the Chase"
• general join dependencies
• examples of computing best decision trees