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CSc-340 Intro. to Databases Dave Hannay <[email protected]> Steinmetz 201 [388-6318] http://cs.union.edu/csc340/ CSc340 1a 1 Course Logistics Introductions Please send E-Mail <[email protected]> Course Outline Handout When you took CSc-150 Background in Databases Note Dates of Tests and Project Reports Schedule Tue & Thu 10:55am-12:40pm CSc340 1a 2 Office Hours Tuesdays Thursdays 9:10-10:40am 9:10-10:40am or see me in class or contact me via email for a specific appointment to be sure that I don't have a meeting, etc. or just stop in if you're in the neighborhood… CSc340 1a 3 Course Requirements Tests (20%/20%/20%) Open book, 4 sheets of notes Project (28%) 3 Project Reports Final Project Presentation Plus turn in completed project at end of term Homework (12%) HW due before class Each Day No late HW accepted turn in early if you must miss class CSc340 1a 4 Textbook Database System Concepts 6th Edition by Silberschatz, Korth, Sudarshan (McGraw-Hill, © 2011) CSc340 1a 5 Practical Experience Textbook Examples: University DB Made-Up Examples "Reel Life" Examples Hands-On Practice during class Your Own Project Other Student Projects CSc340 1a 6 Introduction Chapter 1 Database Systems Applications Purpose of Database Systems View of Data Database Languages Relational Databases Database Design Data Storage & Querying CSc340 1a Transaction Management Database Architecture Data Mining & Information Retrieval Specialty Databases Database Users & Administrators History of Database Systems 7 Database Management System (DBMS) DBMS contains information about a particular enterprise Database Applications: Collection of interrelated data Set of programs to access the data An environment that is both convenient and efficient to use Banking: transactions Airlines: reservations, schedules Universities: registration, grades Sales: customers, products, purchases Online retailers: order tracking, customized recommendations Manufacturing: production, inventory, orders, supply chain Human resources: employee records, salaries, tax deductions Databases touch all aspects of our lives University Database Example Application program examples Add new students, instructors, and courses Register students for courses, and generate class rosters Assign grades to students, compute grade point averages (GPA) and generate transcripts In the early days, database applications were built directly on top of file systems Types of Databases and Database Applications Numeric and Textual Databases Multimedia Databases Geographic Information Systems (GIS) iTunes; YouTube maps.google.com; Google Earth Data Warehouses Real-Time and Active Databases Airline Reservations; Plane Tracking CSc340 1a 10 Database Experience? Hannay Reels Student database usage? Was the database useful? Was the interface user friendly? Anyone with advanced DB Experience? administrator? designer? CSc340 1a 11 Purpose of Database Systems (1 of 2) Drawbacks of using file systems to store data: Data redundancy and inconsistency Difficulty in accessing data Multiple file formats, duplication of information in different files Need to write a new program to carry out each new task Data isolation — multiple files and formats Integrity problems Integrity constraints (e.g., account balance > 0) become “buried” in program code rather than being stated explicitly Hard to add new constraints or change existing ones Purpose of Database Systems (2 of 2) Drawbacks of using file systems (cont.) Atomicity of updates Failures may leave database in an inconsistent state with partial updates carried out Example: Transfer of funds from one account to another should either complete or not happen at all Concurrent access by multiple users Concurrent access needed for performance Uncontrolled concurrent accesses can lead to inconsistencies Security problems Example: Two people reading a balance (say 100) and updating it by withdrawing money (say 50 each) at the same time Hard to provide user access to some, but not all, data Database systems offer solutions to all the above problems Problems with Data Redundancy Waste of space to have duplicate data Causes more maintenance headaches The biggest problem: Data changes in one file could cause inconsistencies Compromises in data integrity CSc340 1a 14 Data Redundancy / Data Integrity When all copies of redundant data are not updated consistently, a data integrity problem exists. Ancient Chinese Proverb: "Person with one watch knows what time it is, person with two is never sure." CSc340 1a 15 Redundant Data may appear in Several Places Sales file Customer Number 2746795 Customer Name John Jones Customer Address 123 Elm Street Accounts Receivable file Customer Customer Name Number 2746795 John Jones Customer Address 123 Elm Street Credit file Customer Number 2746795 Customer Address 123 Elm Street Customer Name John Jones CSc340 1a 16 Three Files with a Data Integrity Problem Sales file Customer Number 2746795 Customer Name John Jones Customer Address 456 Oak Street Accounts Receivable file Customer Customer Number Name 2746795 John Jones Customer Address 456 Oak Street Credit file Customer Number 2746795 Customer Address 123 Elm Street Customer Name John Jones CSc340 1a 17 Problem Combining Two Files General Hardware Company Files (a) Salesperson file Salesperson Commission Year Of Hire Name Percentage Baker 10 1995 Adams 15 2001 Dickens 10 1998 Carlyle 20 2001 Salesperson Number 137 186 204 361 Customer Number 0121 0839 0933 1047 1525 1700 1826 2198 2267 (b) Customer file Customer Salesperson Name Number Main St. 137 Hardware Jane’s Stores 186 ABC Home 137 Stores Acme 137 Hardware Store Fred’s Tool 361 Stores XYZ Stores 361 City Hardware 137 Western 204 Hardware Central Stores 186 CSc340 1a HQ City New York Chicago Los Angeles Los Angeles Atlanta Washington New York New York New York 18 General Hardware Company Combined File 0121 Main St. Hardware 0839 Jane's Stores 0933 ABC Home Stores 1047 Acme Hardware Store 1525 Fred's Tool Stores 1700 XYZ Stores 1826 City Hardware 2198 Western Hardware 2267 Central Stores Fall 2008 137 New York 137 Baker 10 1995 186 Chicago 137 Los Angeles 137 Los Angeles 361 Atlanta 186 Adams 137 Baker 15 2001 10 1995 137 Baker 10 1995 361 Carlyle 20 2001 361 Washington 361 Carlyle 20 2001 137 New York 137 Baker 10 1995 204 New York 204 Dickens 10 1998 186 New York CSc340 1a 186 Adams 15 2001 19 Data in context Context helps users understand data CSc340 1a 20 Summarized data Graphical displays turn data into useful information that managers can use for decision making and interpretation CSc340 1a 22 Levels of Abstraction Physical level: describes how a record (e.g., customer) is stored. Logical level: describes data stored in database, and the relationships among the data. type instructor = record ID : string; name : string; dept_name : string; salary : integer; end; View level: application programs hide details of data types. Views can also hide information (such as an employee’s salary) for security purposes. View of Data An architecture for a database system Instances and Schemas Similar to types and variables in programming languages Schema – the logical structure of the database Example: The database consists of information about a set of customers and accounts and the relationship between them Analogous to type information of a variable in a program Physical schema: database design at the physical level Logical schema: database design at the logical level Instance – the actual content of the database at a particular point in time Analogous to the value of a variable Physical Data Independence – the ability to modify the physical schema without changing the logical schema Applications depend on the logical schema In general, the interfaces between the various levels and components should be well defined so that changes in some parts do not seriously influence others. Data Models A collection of tools for describing Data Data relationships Data semantics Data constraints Relational model Entity-Relationship data model (mainly for database design) Object-based data models (Object-oriented and Objectrelational) Semistructured data model (XML) Other older models: Network model Hierarchical model Relational Model Relational model (Chapter 2) Example of tabular data in the relational model Columns Rows A Sample Relational Database Data Manipulation Language (DML) Language for accessing and manipulating the data organized by the appropriate data model Two classes of languages DML also known as query language Procedural – user specifies what data is required and how to get those data Declarative (nonprocedural) – user specifies what data is required without specifying how to get those data SQL is the most widely used query language Data Definition Language (DDL) Specification notation for defining the database schema Example: create table instructor ( ID char(5), name varchar(20), dept_name varchar(20), salary numeric(8,2)) DDL compiler generates a set of tables stored in a data Data dictionary contains metadata (i.e., data about data) dictionary Database schema Integrity constraints Primary key (ID uniquely identifies instructors) Referential integrity (references constraint in SQL) e.g. dept_name value in any instructor tuple must appear in department relation Authorization SQL SQL: widely used non-procedural language Application programs generally access databases through one of Example: Find the name of the instructor with ID 22222 select name from instructor where instructor.ID = ‘22222’ select instructor.ID, department.dept name from instructor, department where instructor.dept name= department.dept name and department.budget > 95000 Language extensions to allow embedded SQL Application program interface (e.g., ODBC/JDBC) which allow SQL queries to be sent to a database Chapters 3, 4 and 5 Database Design The process of designing the general structure of the database: Logical Design – Deciding on the database schema. Database design requires that we find a “good” collection of relation schemas. Business decision – What attributes should we record in the database? Computer Science decision – What relation schemas should we have and how should the attributes be distributed among the various relation schemas? Physical Design – Deciding on the physical layout of the database Database Design? Is there any problem with this design? Design Approaches Entity Relationship Model (Chapter 7) Models an enterprise as a collection of entities and relationships Entity: a “thing” or “object” in the enterprise that is distinguishable from other objects Described by a set of attributes Relationship: an association among several entities Represented diagrammatically by an entity- relationship diagram Normalization Theory (Chapter 8) Formalize what designs are bad, and test for them Object-Relational Data Models Relational model: flat, “atomic” values Object Relational Data Models Extend the relational data model by including object orientation and constructs to deal with added data types. Allow attributes of tuples to have complex types, including non-atomic values such as nested relations. Preserve relational foundations, in particular the declarative access to data, while extending modeling power. Provide upward compatibility with existing relational languages. XML: Extensible Markup Language Defined by the WWW Consortium (W3C) Originally intended as a document markup language not a database language The ability to specify new tags, and to create nested tag structures made XML a great way to exchange data, not just documents XML has become the basis for all new generation data interchange formats. A wide variety of tools is available for parsing, browsing and querying XML documents/data Database System Internals Database Users and Administrators Database Storage Management Storage manager is a program module that provides the interface between the low-level data stored in the database and the application programs and queries submitted to the system. The storage manager is responsible to the following tasks: Interaction with the file manager Efficient storing, retrieving and updating of data Issues: Storage access File organization Indexing and hashing Query Processing (1 of 2) 1. Parsing and translation 2. Optimization 3. Evaluation Query Processing (2 of 2) Alternative ways of evaluating a given query Equivalent expressions Different algorithms for each operation Cost difference between a good and a bad way of evaluating a query can be enormous Need to estimate the cost of operations Depends critically on statistical information about relations which the database must maintain Need to estimate statistics for intermediate results to compute cost of complex expressions Transaction Management What if the system fails? What if more than one user is concurrently updating the same data? A transaction is a collection of operations that performs a single logical function in a database application Transaction-management component ensures that the database remains in a consistent (correct) state despite system failures (e.g., power failures and operating system crashes) and transaction failures. Concurrency-control manager controls the interaction among the concurrent transactions, to ensure the consistency of the database. Database Architecture The architecture of a database systems is greatly influenced by the underlying computer system on which the database is running: Centralized Client-server Parallel (multi-processor) Distributed History of Database Systems (1 of 2) 1950s and early 1960s: Data processing using magnetic tapes for storage Tapes provided only sequential access Punched cards for input Late 1960s and 1970s: Hard disks allowed direct access to data Network and hierarchical data models in widespread use Ted Codd defines the relational data model Would win the ACM Turing Award for this work IBM Research begins System R prototype UC Berkeley begins Ingres prototype High-performance (for the era) transaction processing History (2 of 2) 1980s: Research relational prototypes evolve into commercial systems Large decision support and data-mining applications Large multi-terabyte data warehouses Emergence of Web commerce Early 2000s: Parallel and distributed database systems Object-oriented database systems 1990s: SQL becomes industrial standard XML and XQuery standards Automated database administration Later 2000s: Giant data storage systems Google BigTable, Yahoo PNuts, Amazon, .. Homework/Project Homework Due before Next Class: (see Homework Handout) Homework Due in One Week: E-Mail your background to [email protected] 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.6 Project Selection Due in One Week: Name, General Description CSc340 1a 47 To the Computers Check Out http://www.hannay.com Check out http://cs.union.edu/csc340 Try Dealer Locator: Fire Fighting Equip, your zip Try Dealer Login: 587566 Note Course Outline, Download area Compare Spreadsheet vs. Database Find File Distribution “download” directory on web site Download Hannay Reels DB.xls (59K) Download Hannay Reels Customers.odb (21K) Download Hannay Reels Customers.mdb (544K) CSc340 1a 48