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CIS 2109 Database and File Management Systems . Lecture 1: Introduction. Lots of data in the world. Single data warehouse: terabytes to petabytes Mountains of data. How do we: manage it? turn mountain of data points to useful information? connect the dots?. Goals of the course.
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CIS 2109 Database and File Management Systems Lecture 1: Introduction
Lots of data in the world • Single data warehouse: terabytes to petabytes • Mountains of data. How do we: • manage it? • turn mountain of data points to useful information? • connect the dots?
Goals of the course • Learn database management principles • Learn some tools and how to use them • Build real systems
What? “organized collection of logically structured data.”
Where? • Credit card • Telephone • Music • Doctor’s office • Sports stats • Car dealer, parts, etc. • Payroll, HR, etc. • Airlines • Weather • Web ad markets • Target. Who’s pregnant? • TU student DB • Pizza place + CallerID • Address • Previous orders • Google Maps • Where’s the pizza? • Flu maps • Amazon • OS config info
How large? Data Warehouses Terabytes. Even Petabytes.
Share your DVD collection • How do we keep track? • What is stored? types, etc? • How do we read information out of it?
Corner video store • Start charging • Due dates • Movie sales. Should price ever be • negative? • NaN? • Some processing • What movies are popular? • Customers with expiring credit cards?
Consistency, Accuracy • Does the customer’s address make sense? • e.g. Does the zip code agree with the city, state? • What if the customer moves? • Change city • But forget to change zip
We open a 2nd video store • Shared customer table • Maybe shared DVD table • What problems arise? • Consistency?
Suspend subscription • Suspend: • Pending deliveries • Billing once all movies are returned • Keep: • Contact information • Billing information • DVD queue • Sending advertisements, offers, etc. • Database triggers.
Billing • Customer has: • an account balance • credit card • monthly subscription fee • At the right time of the month, we: • add the subscription fee to their balance • When the customer authorizes payment: • Send charge to credit card issuing bank • Deduct charge from account balance • What happens if there’s a network disruption in the middle? • DB Transactions
DB Software • MS Access, Filemaker • SQLite (Firefox/TBird, Lightroom, Dropbox, Android) • MySQL • Oracle, Postgres, MS SQL Server
How do you talk to these? • From a console • From a utility program, e.g., MySQL Workbench • Embed in other code, e.g., JDBC, PHP, JSP, ASP, Rails, Django(through ORMs)
Other models • NoSQL • XML • JSON • Think Twitter, Google Maps mashups
Who? • DB application developers • DB designer • DBA • DBMS implementor • Data analyst