CO42033: Object Database Systems

Lectures

• Lectures "Object-oriented databases": one page, printable version
  * 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)
  * Some Questions
• Lecture "Databases on the web": one page, printable version
  * Readings: Comparison of Dynamic Web Content Technologies, Structured Databases on the Web, Tim Berner's Lee's article
  * Some Questions
• Lecture "Data Warehouses": one page, printable version
  * Readings: Data Cubes, FCA
• Lecture "Database Visualisation and GIS": slides
  * Websites: cybergeography, GIS,
  Example of GIS site (ignore the registration, click on the "click here" link at the bottom)

Tutorials

(Note: the answers will be added after the tutorials)

Topics	Exercises and answers	Oracle 9i documentation
Tutorial 1 Object Types	printable version, answers	Basic Components of Oracle Objects
Tutorial 2 Subtypes, References	printable version, answers	Basic Components of Oracle Objects
Tutorial 3 Methods	printable version, answers	Basic Components of Oracle Objects
Tutorial 4 Collection Types	printable version, answers	Basic Components of Oracle Objects
Tutorial 5 Converting Relational Tables	printable version,	Object Model of Relational Data