GACS/ACS-4902 (Advanced Database Systems)

Course Objectives

This course is a continuation of ACS-3902 (Database Systems). It deals with advanced topics in database design, use, and administration. Concretely, the knowledge of the following topics will be established:

  • System implementation and client/server architectures

  • Query processing and optimization

  • Transaction processing, concurrency control and recovery

  • Database security

  • Enhanced entity-relationship modelling

  • Object-oriented database management systems