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COMP102: Introduction to Databases, 30. Dr. Muhammad Sulaiman Khan Department of Computer Science The University of Liverpool U.K. 10 May 2011. Material Revision Lecture. Lecture 1&2. All stuff from these lectures !!! Data vs Information
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COMP102: Introduction to Databases, 30 Dr. Muhammad Sulaiman Khan Department of Computer Science The University of Liverpool U.K. 10 May 2011
Lecture 1&2 All stuff from these lectures !!! • Data vs Information • Information system and its functions (functions define operations on information!) • Other defs: Database, DBMS, Application Program, etc. • TPM (Transaction Processing Monitor) – def, understand its role, functions, ... • Transactions (ACID), ... • Concurrency Control Service • Etc,…
Lecture 3 All stuff from this lecture !!! • Data Model • Relational Data Model Terminology • Properties of relations, relational tables !!! (Rows, Columns, Cardinality etc.) • Sets, set inclusions, ... !!! • Notions of keys, examples, .... !!!!! • Questions like: table has attributes (P,Q,R,S) can (P,Q) and (Q) be both CK’s, PK’s ??? • Etc,.... • ....
Lectures 4 - 7 All stuff from these lectures !!! • These are first lectures about SQL, SQL queries, etc. !!! • About 25% questions in the exam is related to SQL/SQL statements and queries !!! • Correlated subqueries !!! • Etc • .... • ....
Lecture 8, 9 and 9a • DSDLC or DBSDLC: know roughly its parts and understand what they are about • Prototyping • Testing!!! • Fact-finding!!! know fact-finding techniques and understand what they are about
Lectures 11 and 12 All stuff from these lectures !!! • Entity-Relationship Modeling • UML notations • E.g.: how do we calculate the multiplicity (cardinality and participation) constraints of binary and of complex relationships. • Chasm and Fan traps, … • Know about the types of relationships: Inverse, Unary, Recursive and Complex • Etc,...
Lecture 13 All stuff from this lecture !!! • Three forms of Normalization (def) • How normalisation reduces redundancy and update anomalies • Functional relationship/dependency • Conversion from 1st to 2nd and then to 3rd normal form • Pay special attention to wording in the definitions!!! • ... • ...
Lecture 14 • Know about: • Logical database design • Physical database design • How to identify: • Attributes • Entities • Relationships • Attribute domain • Keys!!! • …
Lecture 15 All stuff from this lecture !!! • ER model into tables (the relational model): all details!!! • Types of relationships involving multiplicities • Identifying parent and child entities using participation constraints • Normalisation • Integrity constraints • Business rules • Etc...
Lecture 16 • All defs, especially Specialisation/Generalisation!!! • Concepts of super class and sub class in ER Modeling. • Know roughly participation constraints and understand what they are about. • Creating tables to represent specialization/generalization • … • …
Lecture 17 • Indexes • Analysing transactions • File organisations • Linear search and Binary Search • Derived data • Etc…
Lecture 18 All stuff from this lecture !!! • User views and security mechanism • Controlled redundancy (denormalisation) • Monitoring and Tuning the operational system • Measuring system efficiency • Etc, ... • ...
Lectures 19-20 & 21-23 All stuff from these lectures !!! • SQL, SQL, SQL • About 25% questions in the exam is related to SQL/SQL statements and queries !!! • JOINS • NULL vs unknown • Using MIN/MAX in queries • ...
Lectures 24 & 25 • Constraints and types • Triggers and their types • Authentication vsAuthorisation !!! • Roles and Privileges (specially Grant in MySQL) • Roughly know Public Key Cryptography, RSA Encryption
Lecture 26 & 27 All stuff from this lecture !!! • Programming with SQL • SQL injection attacks!!! • CGI • JDBC • Etc • ...
Lectures 28 • Know about query optimisation • Know about relational algebra, specially the following and how they are used: • INTERSECT • EXCEPT • UNION • Selection • Projection • Etc…
Lecture 29 All stuff from this lecture !!! • Know Data Protection Act 1998 • Know all 8 Principles • Other defs • Understand application of the Data Protection Act 1998 • Etc • ...
Remarks • Remember: UML is the way how we draw our ER diagrams!!! For us UML diagrams are same as ER diagrams. • REMARK: Study carefully referential integrity (PK/FK—mechanism, and how they are realized in SQL) !!!
Example of an exam SQL question Consider the schema: Movie(title, year, length, studioName, producer) StarsIn(movieTitle, movieYear, starName) and the two SQL queries: SELECT starName FROM StarsIn WHERE movieYear < ALL ( SELECT year FROM Movie WHERE producer = ‘Johny‘ ); SELECT starName FROM StarsIn WHERE movieYear < ( SELECT MIN(year) FROM Movie WHERE producer = ‘Johny‘ ); Which combination of the following statements are all true concerning these two SQL queries ? I. These two queries produce the same results. II. Both queries use aggregate functions. III. The first query finds all actors who starred in a movie produced before producer Johny launched any movie. IV. The second query uses a correlated subquery. A. I. only B. I. and II. only C. III. only D. I. and III. only E. II. and IV. only