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Jack Baskin School of EngineeringUC Santa Cruz

CMPS 278


Advanced course in implementation techniques for database systems.
Topics include transaction management, locking protocols for tables,
and locking for index structures; query optimization, database
statistics, and query processing; access methods for multidimensional
data; and database recovery in centralized and distributed systems.
Additional topics may include objects in databases, parallel database
systems, advanced query optimization techniques, and data mining.
Prerequisite(s): course 277 or 181 (or equivalent) or consent of
instructor. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment
limited to 20. W. Tan, N. Polyzotis

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