Stephen Allen wrote:
Forgot the link to the course! You can sign up at: http://www.db-class.org
It's free and you can watch videos at 1.5x speed up. Useful (and fun!). :-) ... ah, you need to wait until last lesson (in December) for "NoSQL Systems". There isn't much on "distributed|parallel databases". The website offer a good experience for people interested. Thanks for the link. Paolo
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Allen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 4:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Stanford Class - Introduction to Databases All, I thought people might be interested in an online class Stanford is offering called "Introduction to Databases". It is taught by Jennifer Widom, who is one of the coauthors of one of the best database books I've read [1]. Because SPARQL is based on relational algebra, I found the book to be extremely valuable in understanding how a SPARQL query engine works (especially query optimization). A lot of the other topics are also very relevant to work on Jena: physical data storage, costs for different join algorithms, and transactions. I am signed up for the course (which starts next Monday). If people were interested, I thought we could discuss some of the topics during the semester on or off this list. -Stephen [1] http://www.amazon.com/Database-Systems-Complete-Book- 2nd/dp/0131873253/
