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What's on the Exam?

Potential topics to be examined ...
  • A - Course Introduction, DBMS Revision, PostgreSQL
  • B - Storage: Devices, Files, Pages, Tuples, Buffers, Catalogs
  • C - Cost Models, Implementing Scan, Sort, Projection
  • D - Implementing Selection on One Attribute
  • E - Implementing Selection on Multiple Attributes
  • F - Similarity-based Selection
  • G - Implementing Join
  • H - Query Translation, Optimisation, Execution
  • I - Transactions, Concurrency, Recovery
  • J - Non-classical DBMSs