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Subject: RE: Stanford Class - Introduction to Databases
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:13:53 -0400
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Forgot the link to the course!  You can sign up at: http://www.db-class.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Allen [mailto:sallen@bbn.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 4:12 PM
> To: jena-dev@incubator.apache.org
> 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/
> 
>