Advanced Databases

This is a generic version of lectures and tutorials that I taught at Napier University.

Lectures

• Object-oriented databases
  * Reading: M. Atkinson, F. Bancilhon, D. DeWitt, K. Dittrich, D. Maier, and S. Zdonik. The Object-Oriented Database System Manifesto. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, pages 223-40, Kyoto, Japan, December 1989. (Can be downloaded from here or here)

• Databases on the web
  * Readings: Comparison of Dynamic Web Content Technologies,
  Structured Databases on the Web,
  Tim Berner's Lee's article

• Data Warehouses
  * Readings: Data Cubes, FCA

• Database Visualisation and GIS
  * Websites: cybergeography, GIS,
  Example of GIS site (ignore the registration, click on the "click here" link at the bottom)

Tutorials: Oracle 9i - Object Relational Database Features

Resources