CPSC 624

This course introduces advanced concepts in database design and applications. Topics include transaction management, concurrency control, query processing and ptimization, recovery and security, data warehousing and data mining, handling of special data types such as multimedia, spatial data, and XML documents. An introduction to object-oriented and object-relational models, parallel and distributed databases, and special purpose databases is also provided. Support for complex applications, information retrieval and data analysis is examined.