Assignments

• Assignment #1 - SSDs vs. Magnetic Disks (word)
• Assignment #2 - RAID Storage Device (word)
• Assignment #3 - DBMS Indexing (word)

Course Slides

• The Databases:
  • The Banking Enterprise (pdf)
  • The University Enterprise (pdf)
  • The Employee Enterprise (doc)
• Storage and File Structure (pdf)
• Indexing and Hashing (pdf)
  • B-Tree Analysis (pdf)
  • Multi-Key B+ Tree Data (txt)
• Query Processing (pdf)
• Query Optimization (pdf)
• Transactions (pdf)
  • Serializability (pdf)
• Concurrency Control (pdf)

Helpful Links

• The Books Website
• The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)
• The System R website
• System R History and Evaluation
• Sybase System Tables Diagram
• Reviews on the Latest Storage Devices
• How Stuff Works Information Site