Data Management - topics covered (academic year 2011/2012)
This is the list of topics covered in the course. Problems given in the exams will address such topics.
- The structure of a Data Base Management System (DBMS)
- Transaction management
- The concept of transaction
- Concurrency management
- Crash management
- Classification of failures
- Recovery
- Physical structures for data bases
- Record and page organizations
- Simple file organizations
- Index file organizations
- Query processing
- Performance of file organizations
- Evaluation of relational algebra operators