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Advanced Database Systems (ADBS, in English) – 48h, 6 CFU

2024-2025, 2nd period, Master degree in Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity, University of Udine

Teacher

Dario Della Monica

Exam modality

The exam consists of a written test that can assign a score up to 28/30.
The oral exam is optional; students can ask for it, if they wish so, after having passed the written test.
However, those aiming to a score higher than 28/30 must take an oral exam.
The final score after the oral exam can be lower than the score obtained with the written test.
Sometimes, on a case-by-case basis, the teacher may require students to integrate their written exam with an oral one.

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Lectures

Youtube links to recordings of lectures
Lecture 1 (Thursday, March 6, 2025, 8:30-10:30):
Course introduction [.pdf] [embedded with marker]
Query processing (overview) [.ppt] [.pdf] [embedded with marker]
Lecture 2 (Friday, March 7, 2025, 12:30-14:30):
Query processing (overview of the optimizer, cost model)
Lecture 3 (Thursday, March 13, 2025, 8:30-10:30):
Query processing (selection algorithm without index, B+-trees, selection algorithms for equality conditions with index)
Lecture 4 (Friday, March 14, 2025, 12:30-14:30 Thursday, March 20, 2025, 8:30-10:30):
Query processing (all remaining selection algorithms)
Lecture 5 (Friday, March 21, 2025, 12:30-14:30)
Query processing (external sort-merge, nested-loop join)
Lecture 6 (Thursday, March 27, 2025, 8:30-10:30)
Query processing (block nested-loop join, indexed nested-loop join)
Lecture 7 (Friday, March 28, 2025, 12:30-14:30)
Query processing (materialization vs. pipelining)
Query optimization (overview, introduction to equivalence rules) [.ppt] [.pdf] [embedded with marker]
Lecture 8 (Thursday, April 3, 2025, 8:30-10:30)
Query optimization (equivalence rules, generating equivalent relational algebra expressions, the catalog, meta-information and statistical predictions, estimating the size of the output of a simple selection)
Lecture 9 (Friday, April 4, 2025, 12:30-14:30)
Query optimization (estimating the size of the output of other expressions, estimating the number of different values for a set of attributes in the output of an expression, best join order problem)
Lecture 10 (Thursday, April 10, 2025, 8:30-10:30)
Query optimization (a dynamic programming algorithm to find the best join order for a set of relations)
Introduction to distributed DB systems (overview) [.pptx] [.pdf] [embedded with marker]
Lecture 11 (Friday, April 11, 2025, 12:30-14:30)
Introduction to distributed DB systems (centralization/distribution/integration, promises of distributed DBMS)
Lecture 12 (Thursday, April 24, 2025, 8:30-10:30)
Introduction to distributed DB systems (design issues, architectures for distributed data management)
Distributed DB design (introduction) [.pptx] [.pdf] [embedded with marker]
Lecture 13 (Friday, May 2, 2025, 12:30-14:30)
Distributed DB design (primary horizontal fragmentation, derived horizontal fragmentation)
Lecture 14 (Thursday, May 8, 2025, 8:30-10:30)
Distributed DB design (vertical fragmentation, hybrid fragmentation, allocation, distributed data directory)
Overview of distributed query processing [.pptx] [.pdf] [embedded with marker]
Lecture 15 (Friday, May 9, 2025, 12:30-14:30)
Query decomposition and data localization (reductions for primary horizontal/vertical/derived horizontal/hybrid fragmentation) [.pptx] [.pdf] [embedded with marker]
Distributed query optimization (overview, semi-join algorithm) [.pptx] [.pdf] [embedded with marker]