The course gives a basic orientation in the domain of databases.
Aimed at students of the 2nd year of the combined follow-up study.
- Relational database overview
- Base relational database objects: database, table, column, key, foreign key
- Database actions: queries, data modification
- Illustrated on examples in LibreOffice Base, the free database tool
- Database implementation variants: desktop databases, database servers, database clusters, cloud databases, embedded databases
- Database administration basics, esp. backing-up and restoration
- Transactions: handling concurrent access to the same data
- Access rights to data in databases
- A short overview of current trends in databases