文章目录[隐藏]
Admin
Grading
- Homework: 20%
- Quizs: 10%
- Course project: 25%
- Midterm: 20%
- Final exam: 25%
Reason to have a Database
Unitility
- Data processing backs essentially every app
- Databases of one form or another back most apps
- The principles taught in this class back nearly everything in computing
Centrality
- Data is at the center of modern society.
- Unprecedented in its nature and significance
- Particular and voluminous
- Often asymmetric
- low value in isolation, high value when aggregated
- Difficult to protect
- The infrastructure determines what’s possible
