CMSC 661 Principles of Database Systems: Readings
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- By Sept 9: Ullman (1.1-1.7, 2.1-2.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.6-4.8) and the handout
"SQL - A Relational Database Language" (Ch. 7 from "Fundamentals of Database Systems" by Elmasri and Navathe).
- By Sept 16: Ullman (7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, and 7.8).
Complete reading of chapters 2 and 4 from Ullman (2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 4.1-4.5). [week 2]
- By Sept 30: Ullman (6.1-6.14), the R-trees paper by Guttman, and
the Nearest Neighbor Queries paper by Rousopoulos et al [weeks 3-4]
- By Oct 7: Ullman (3.1-3-5), [weeks 5-6]
- By Oct 14: Ullman (3.6-3.10) [week 7]
- By Oct 21: Ullman (9.1-9.5) [week 8]
- By Nov 4: Ullman (9.6-9.11) [weeks 9-10]
- By Nov 16: Ullman (10.1-10.8) [week 11]
- By Nov 16: the paper "An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems" by Chou and DeWitt.
- By Nov 18: the paper "Query Evaluation Tachniques for Large Databases" by Graefe. (up to and including section 3, pages 73-98).