CS580 - Query Processing in Database Systems

Textbook

Principles of Query Processing for Advanced Database Applictions. By C. Yu and W. Meng, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998

Description

This course focuses on query processing in Distributed Relational Database, Heterogenerous Database, OO Database, Parallel Database, Fuzzy Database, and Deductive Database.

Lecture Notes

(Under construction)

Term Project

Integration of Two Psychiatric Databases - The goal of the project is to design a global schema and proper resolution functions for the integration of two psychiatric databases. Design proper processing strategies to process some typical queries. The two psychiatric databases come from two different research groups that had carried out research work on Bipolar Disorders individually and had collected much historic data from the patients. (More details can be found in this electronic version of the Final Report)