Normal Forms

• Top 10 largest databases ,

Setup at University of Minnesota

• A simple script illustrating login, logout.

Normal Forms

• 3 views of normal form definitions ,

Oracle

• Oracle basics (SQLplus commands, simple SQL) from Stanford University database group
(*** Highly Recommended ***)
• Oracle tutorials from MIT (tuning, dwh, java) ... web nerds series ,
• Oracle system catalog ,
• Oracle 9i Manuals ,
• Oracle 9i Backup and Recovery ,
• FAQ ,

SQL Standard

• SQL 1999 overview article,
• Article from The DA Newsletter,
• SQL Links,
• SQL/MM,
• SQL 2003,
• A local tutorial on SQL basics,

Transaction Processing

• Bernstein's book (electronic copy) ,
• Transaction Processing Council (TPC) Home ,

Comparison of SQL Products

• A Survey of DBMS software products
• Powerpoint comparison of Oracle, DB2 and SQL server
• Comparison of Oracle, mySQL, and Postgres ,

DB2 Links

• DB2 magazine ,
• Business story of DB2 ,
• DB2 links ,
• DB2 Books ,
• IBM scholars programs on DB2 etc. ,
• IBM tutorials on websshphere, DB2, etc. ,
• Documentation on DB2 for AS400 ,
• Performance Tuning,
• DB2/400 ,
• DB2/400 Book (Conte) ,

Database Research Community

• DB Events ,

Information Engineering, CASE Tools, ER Model

• Enterprise-in-a-box ,
• ER notation ,
• List of CASE Tools ,
• dia - a freeware tool ,
• IE summary article ,
• A relation model diagramming tool from Minnesota ,

Computer Hardware, Disk drives, RAIDs

• PC,
• Disk drives ,

Database Security

• Links from MIS ,
• MIS article - securing sensitive data ,
• survey paper 96 ,
• statistical security links ,
• OLAP security paper ,
• SQL Server security,

Data Mining

• Datasets from Teaching and Learning of Statistics ,
• Titanic article and dataset (amstat) ,
• UCI machine learning archive ,
• UCI KDI archive ,

History of Database Software

• XML Tutorial ,

History of Database Software

• Software Index ,
• History of Databases ,
• History of Hashing ,
• History of ISAM ,
• History of IMS ,
• History of INGRES ,
• History of mySQL ,
• History of Recovery ,
• History of 2 phase commit ,
• History of Hashing ,

  Other

  • SQL Tutorial ,
  • Database Replication ,
  • Oracle Data Mining ,
  • Java Data Mining API ,
  • Tutorials ,
  • Database Humour ,