Database Systems#

  • SQL

  • File Management

  • Index Management

  • Buffer Management

  • Relational Operations

  • Query

    • Sorting and Hashing Algorithm

    • Query Optimization

  • Concurrency

    • Transaction

    • Transaction Schedule

    • 2 Phase Lock

  • Parallel Query and Transaction

    • Inter-Operator Parallelism

    • Selecivity

    • Distributed Transaction

  • Recovery

    • ARIES Logging

  • Database Design

    • Functional Dependency

    • Entity Diagram

  • Search Engine

CS 186 Instructions#

  1. Watch lecture webcast

    • Take notes on main contents

    • Do the practice problems

    • Update notes on revelations

  2. Do discussion worksheets

    • Update notes on revelations

  3. Do vitamins

    • Update notes on revelations

  4. Summarize notes (study week of exams)

    • Take notes on review session for main structure and outline.

    • Prioritized iffty topics (review and practice).

    • Update all necessary notes with a summary.

  5. Create cheatsheet or content map using summarized notes

    • Content map useful for well structured contents.

    • Restructure the notes TOC matching the content map.

    • If no content map, then cheatsheet is a must.