Catalog Description: Access methods and file systems to facilitate data access. Hierarchical, network, relational, and object-oriented data models. Query languages for models. Embedding query languages in programming languages. Database services including protection, integrity control, and alternative views of data. High-level interfaces including application generators, browsers, and report writers. Introduction to transaction processing. Database system implementation to be done as term project.
Units: 4
Prerequisites: COMPSCI 61B and COMPSCI 61C.
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Comp Sci 186 after taking Comp Sci 286A.
Formats:
Spring: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Fall: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Grading basis: letter
Final exam status: Written final exam conducted during the scheduled final exam period
Class Schedule (Fall 2023):
CS 186 – MoWe 10:00-11:29, Soda 306 –
Alvin Cheung
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