University of Helsinki Department of Computer Science, ©Harri Laine

Material

• Lecture material (by Harri Laine) in Finnish is available as pdf-files (in the Finnish home page of the course) and also as printed in the hand-out sales office of the Department.

• English material for the course may be found in many text books about databases, for example:
  • Elmasri & S. B. Navathe: Fundamentals of Database Systems, 3th ed (Addison-Wesley, 1999). This course covers only some parts of this book. Chapters 1,2,7 not entirely, 8 and some parts of ch 10. A detailed description of the coverage may be found in the Topics-page.

  • R. Elmasri & S. B. Navathe: Fundamentals of Database Systems, 2nd Ed (Benjamin/Cummings, 1994). This is an older edition of the above. It may be used as well. As regard to this course this edition differs mainly on page and chapter numbers.

  • The text books above do not cover Java interface and www-related topics of the course. Additional material will be provided for that part:
    • Introduction to HTML forms

    Database programming in Java is described in article:
    Laine Harri:Database programming

  • Dictionaries:
    • English-Finnish dictionary of database terms
    • English-Finnish dictionary of object oriented terms