November 16, 2017
Thursday of Week 13
Topics of the day
- Database constraints
- Database correctness (ACID)
- Distributing databases
Suggested readings
- Sections 5.2, 8.2, 17.3 from Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant Navathe, Fundamentals of database systems, 4e
- Sections 3.2, 4.2, 21.3 from Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant Navathe, Fundamentals of database systems, 6e
- Sections 7.1, 7.2, 1.2.4 from Jeffrey Ullman and Jennifer Widom, A first course in database systems, 2e
Online references
- Database constraints (en.wikipedia.org)
- Database transaction (en.wikipedia.org)
- ACID (en.wikipedia.org)
- Shard (en.wikipedia.org)
- No SQL (en.wikipedia.org)
Assignments
Upcoming
- Homework 6 revision due (21 Nov)
- Project 4: Database due (28 Nov)
