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Lecture 1
Introduction
Based on http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/fcdb/aut07/index.html#lecture
CS4416 Database SystemsCS5122 Development of IS 2
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What is a Database?
Collection of information: Exists over a long period of time Stored on secondary storage in a structured
way. Managed by a computer program called
Database Management System (DBMS)
Popular DBMSs: Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata, Sybase IQ, Microsoft Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, db4o
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What is a Database? (contd.) DBMS is expected to:
Allow users to create new databases and specify their schemas, using a data-definition language (DDL).• Schema – logical structure of the data
Give users the ability to query and modify the data using a data-manipulation/query language (DML). • The most commonly used query language is SQL.
Support the storage of very large amounts of data over a long period of time, allowing efficient access to the data for queries and database modifications.
Enable durability, the recovery of database in the face of failures, errors of many kinds, or intentional misuse.
Control access to data from many users at once• without allowing unexpected interactions among the users –
isolation• without actions on the data to be performed partially but not
completely - atomicity
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What is a Database? (contd.)
DBMS
DATA
User or application
Database administrator
queries, updates (DML)
schema-altering commands (DDL)
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DBMS Evolution File Systems
First important applications of DBMS’s: Banking systems Airline reservation systems Corporate record keeping
• Employment and tax records• Inventories• Sales records, etc.
Early DBMS’s required the programmer to visualize data as it is stored: Hierarchical data model Network data model
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DBMS Evolution (contd.) Relational database systems
Ted Codd, 1970: Database systems should present the user with a view of data organised as tables called relations
Queries could be expressed in a very high-level language
Norm by 1990
Some of the largest databases are organised differently from those using the relational methodology.
Object (Object-oriented) database systems.
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Interesting Stuff About Databases
It used to be about boring stuff: employee records, bank records, etc.
Today, the field covers all the largest sources of data, with many new ideas. Web search. Data mining. Scientific and medical databases. Integrating information.
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Module Outline Relational Database Modelling
The Relational Data Model Design Theory of Relational Databases
Relational Database Programming SQL: The Database Language Constraints and Triggers Views and Indexes SQL in Server Environment
• The SQL/Host Language Interface• Stored Procedures• JDBC, PHP & MySQL, Android & SQLite
Labs: Oracle, MySQL
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What is a Data Model?
Notation for describing data or information:
Structure of the data.• conceptual data model
Operations on data.• Queries, modifications
Constraints.
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What is a Database? (contd.)
DBMS
DATA
User or application
Database administrator
queries, updates (DML)
schema-altering
commands (DDL)
Conceptual Data Model
PhysicalData Model
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Important Data Models
Relational model – including object-relational extensions
Semistructured-data model, including XML and related standards.
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A Relation is a Table
name manfWinterbrew Pete’sBud Lite Anheuser-
Busch
Beers
Attributes(columnheaders)
Tuples(rows)
Relation name
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Schemas
Relation schema = relation name and attribute list. Optionally: types of attributes. Example: Beers(name, manf) or
Beers(name: string, manf: string) Database = collection of relations. Database schema = set of all
relation schemas in the database.
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Why Relations?
Very simple model. Often matches how we think
about data. Abstract model that underlies SQL,
the most important database language today.
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Do You Know SQL?
Explain the difference between:SELECT b
FROM R
WHERE a<10 OR a>=10;
andSELECT b
FROM R;
a b5 2010 3020 40
R
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And How About These?
SELECT a
FROM R, S
WHERE R.b = S.b;
SELECT a
FROM R
WHERE b IN (SELECT b FROM S);
a b5 2010 3020 40
R
c b10 2010 1040 40
S
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Our Running Example
Beers(name, manf)
Bars(name, addr, license)Drinkers(name, addr, phone)Likes(drinker, beer)Sells(bar, beer, price)Frequents(drinker, bar)
Underline = key (tuples cannot have the same value in all key attributes). Excellent example of a constraint.
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Database Schemas in SQL
SQL is primarily a query language, for getting information from a database.
But SQL also includes a data-definition component for describing database schemas.
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Creating (Declaring) a Relation
Simplest form is:CREATE TABLE <name> (
<list of elements>);
To delete a relation:DROP TABLE <name>;
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Elements of Table Declarations
Most basic element: an attribute and its type.
The most common types are: INT or INTEGER (synonyms). REAL or FLOAT (synonyms). CHAR(n ) = fixed-length string of n
characters. VARCHAR(n ) = variable-length string
of up to n characters.
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SQL Values
Integers and reals are represented as you would expect.
Strings are too, except they require single quotes. Two single quotes = real quote, e.g., ’Joe’’s Bar’.
Any value can be NULL.
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Dates and Times
DATE and TIME are types in SQL. The form of a date value is:
DATE ’yyyy-mm-dd’ Example: DATE ’2007-09-30’ for
Sept. 30, 2007.
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Times as Values
The form of a time value is:TIME ’hh:mm:ss’
with an optional decimal point and fractions of a second following. Example: TIME ’15:30:02.5’ = two
and a half seconds after 3:30PM.
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Declaring Keys
An attribute or list of attributes may be declared PRIMARY KEY or UNIQUE.
Either says that no two tuples of the relation may agree in all the attribute(s) on the list.
There are a few distinctions to be mentioned later.
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Declaring Single-Attribute Keys
Place PRIMARY KEY or UNIQUE after the type in the declaration of the attribute.
Example:CREATE TABLE Beers (
name CHAR(20) UNIQUE,
manf CHAR(20)
);
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Declaring Multiattribute Keys
A key declaration can also be another element in the list of elements of a CREATE TABLE statement.
This form is essential if the key consists of more than one attribute. May be used even for one-attribute
keys.
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Example: Multiattribute Key
The bar and beer together are the key for Sells:
CREATE TABLE Sells (
bar CHAR(20),
beer VARCHAR(20),
price REAL,
PRIMARY KEY (bar, beer)
);