Data Models and Query Languages
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Lecturer
News
- NEW No lecture on Monday, July 16th
- More Room Changes on Thursday: in June and July, we will be in 04-007, building 106
- Room/Time Change on Thursday: 2pm - 4pm, 03-026, building 051
- First exercise sheet up, due/first discussion May 3rd
- No lecture April 30th, 2 hours of lecture on April 26th (but no exercises)
Organisation
Lecture:
- Monday, 16:00 (sharp!) - 17:40, SR 01-009/13, Building 101
- NEW: Thursday, 14:15 - 15:00,
SR 03-026, Building 051,VC room 04-007, building 106 (in June)
Exercises:
NEW: Thursday, 15:00 - 16:00, SR 03-026, Building 051
Content
This lecture extends the contents taught in the Introduction to Databases lectures in two ways:
- Models and Languages beyond SQL, in particular RDF/SPARQL, XML/XQuery and Datalog
- Formal Foundations of Query Languages, such as Conjunctive Queries, Query Containment and Semantic Query Optimization
Literature
- Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph: Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2009, 455 pages, hardcover
- Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, Victor Vianu: Foundations of Databases. Addison-Wesley 1995, ISBN 0-201-53771-0