Welcome to Database Course

Book Information

The Seminars

version that is followed by the students on the sw4 semester. There are in total 20 seminars in the course.

• The dat4 version of the course consists of the first 15 seminars.
• The sw4 version of the course are the last 15 seminars.

The upcoming seminars can be found via the following link: Upcoming Seminars. You can also use the Events tab above, here you can subscribe to news about the course using RSS.

Teachers

The course is taught by

• Kristian Torp (torp@cs.aau.dk) (the first 15 seminars)
• Man Lung (Ken) Yiu (mly@cs.aau.dk) (the last 5 seminars)

There is one teaching assistant (TA) in the course.

• Dingming Wu (dingming@cs.aau.dk)

Group Rooms

During exercise hours we will visit the following group rooms:

• Dat4/SSE2/DE2: 1.1.32, 1.1.34, 1.1.36, 1.1.38, 1.1.46, 1.1.57, and 1.1.59
• Inf4: 3.1.48
• SW4: 2.1.01, 2.1.03, 2.1.05, 2.1.10, and 2.1.46
  

If your group room is not on this list then let us know.

The Exam

Preliminary information on the exam is available via the following link Exam Information. Note that it is preliminary and changes will happen before the 2009 exam. You will be clearly notified when the exam information for 2009 is available.

Additional Information

On this site you can find various additional information about database using the Links to Additional Database Information. Here the are links to good free books on database, other database courses, and special topics such as spatial databases. You can also use the search facilities in the top right corner, e.g., try to search "concurrency".

Anonymous Comments to Site and Course

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Acknowledgement

Parts of the material on this site is based on the Teachcoop material and previous teachers of the database course. Thanks to:

• Rick Snodgrass (teachcoop), University of Arizona
• Christian S. Jensen (teachcoop) , Aalborg University
• Mike Soo (teachcoop), now at Amazon
• Curtis Dyreson, (teachcoop), Utah State University
  
• Janne Skyt,  previous teacher, now at Logimatic Software A/S
• Mario Nacimento, previous teacher, University of Alberta