SYLLABUS FOR THE DATABASE PORTION OF THE 2004 PH.D. QUALIFYING
EXAMINATION IN SYSTEMS
The Database portion of the Systems Qual is OPEN BOOK.
TOPICS
Data models and query languages. Database design, building database
applications. File structures, indexing, and hashing methods. Query
processing and optimization. Transactions, concurrency control and
recovery, security and authorization, database performance. Material
as covered in CS145 and CS245.
READING LIST
H. Garcia-Molina, J.D. Ullman, and J. Widom
Database Systems: The Complete Book
Prentice-Hall, 2002
All chapters