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DT209 & DT217 Advanced Database for Knowledge Management

 

Lecturer : Brendan Tierney

 

Time :     Mondays  7pm - 10pm                          Time :   

Room :                                                                   Room :

 

Classes will commence week beginning 21st Sept

 

Books

 

 

 Date

 (Mon)

 Lecture Topic

 Additional Information

21st Sept

Introduction Class

History of Databases Paper

Introduction to Databases - Chris Date

 

Introduction to Oracle Book Chapter

28th Sept

DB Management

Exercises:

What vendor database do you have install in your organisation.

How many of each and what are their typical sizes.

How many DBAs does you organisation have.

Are they pure DBAs or a combination of system administrators and DBAs

5th Oct

Database Planning & Design  

12th Oct

Database Modelling

Database Design Case Study

 

Exercise 1 : What are the main applications used in your organisation (i.e. not MS Office, but applications that the business use to function)

 

Exercise 2 : Using a ER Design tool

You can use ERWin which is on the lab PCs or you can download Oracle Data Modeller

 

To Run ERWin got to

 

Log into the Galway application server using

   the icon on the left hand side of the screen

Log in with your username and password, with the Domain being CS

 

Go to Start -> Programs   then

 

To create a new model

From the main menu select

         File > New

Select the radio button   Physical

Target Database :  Oracle   version 10x

Make sure you set the model notation to use the crows feet approach

Select 'Model' from main menu

Then 'Model Properties'

Then select the 'Notation' tab

Select IE (Information Engineering

You can now start creating your ER model

 

To generate a DDL Script

Select Tools from the main menu

Select Forward Engineer / Schema Generation

Select Table on the left of the window

Select CREATE TABLE, DROP TABLE, TABLE CHECK, PHYSICAL STORAGE from the right hand side of the window

Un-check every thing else

Click on the Preview Button

The window should contain all your DDL code

Copy and paste this into Notepad and save as a SQL file.

    Or you can create the file using the Report button

You can not run this in your Oracle Schema      SQL> @c:\xxx.sql

19th Oct

Database Modelling Case study on Oracle Performance Tuning

Class Discussion : What are the typical database query issues you have experienced in your organisation

 

Exercise 1 : ER Design in ERWin

Exercise 2 : For each of you business applications areas what are :

the main pieces of data that are recorded

what data is created/produced

what are the main reporting done

26th Oct

Bank Holiday / Study Week

 
2nd Nov Query Optimisation Class Discussion : what are the main challenges you are experiencing in getting the data & application details

9th Nov

Query Optimisation

Exercise 1 : What data is passed between you different applications

Exercise 2 : What data do the applications have in common

16th Nov

Distributed Databases

Sheth & Larson Paper

ACM Paper on Data Grids

Exercise 1 : Can you produce an integrated data model for your organisation

Assignment : Complete all exercises relating to your organisation and write a report detailing all of the above. Discuss what interesting things you have discovered and what recommendations you would make for your data/information/knowledge and database environment.

23rd Nov

Distributed Databases

Data & Database Integration

 Research Paper by Batini

30th Nov

Data Warehousing

7th Dec

Data Mining Assignment Due on Monday 14th at 10pm

Oracle Podcast - Scaling Oracle Data Warehouses

14th Dec

Review of last year Exam Paper

Video by the Data Protection Commissioner's  office on Data Protection

Assignment due at 10pm - Submit it in WebCourses

 

Christmas Break

 

4th Jan

Exams
11th May Exams  
   
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