General Information and Communication Architecture 1 (GenICT-1) - Part 4: Databases & Web Services

Back link: GenICT-1 landing page

Slides

• Introduction
• databases (why databases? information modelling; first steps with SQL)
• querying databases (more SQL; keys and joins)
• Web services (WWW, http, Semantic Web)
• more about databases (transactions; how can we make databases fast?)
• Big Data (how to handle data bigger than we can handle)
• Web services (in)security (databases, Web, mail)
• wrap-up

Readings

Introductory books - recommended as a bag of choices for reading, but not mandatory course material:

• Databases: Databases for Beginners and Database Tutorial (step-by-step guidance for hands-on work)
• Web services: Web Services for Beginners (nice intro, then gets technical) and W3Schools Web Services intro (very condensed, technical - but well explained)

For those who are interested in the hardcore matter:

• Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeff Ullman, and Jennifer Widom: Database Systems: The Complete Book.