Databases
2009–10

Principal lecturer: Dr Timothy Griffin
Taken by: Part IB
Syllabus
Past exam questions
Information for supervisors (contact lecturer for access permission)
Lecture notes:

• Lectures 1 to 10 : one slide per page, or two slides per page.
• Lectures 11 to 12 : one slide per page, or two slides per page.

Contest winners:

• Sebastian Probst Eide : sebastian.txt
• Ludwig Schmidt : ludwig.txt

Fun Links:

• Raw IMDb data files
• Codd's original 1970 paper describing the relational model (reprinted here in 1983).
• A short biography of Edgar Codd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_F._Codd.
• Chen's original 1976 paper on Enitity-Relationship models.
• A short biography of Peter Chen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chen.
• Fagin's definition of multivalued dependencies.
• Berkeley DB