CS 460 Databases for Data Scientists (FSS 2025)

Important: This course is open only to MMDS students who started before 2024 and MMSDS students!

Course Description

The course provides an introduction to relational database systems. The course will cover the following topics:

  • Principles of data storage
  • Database query languages (SQL)
  • Relational modeling
  • Keys and normal forms
  • Hash and index structures
  • Transactions and concurrency

Dates and Times

  • Lecture: TBD
  • Exercise: TBD
  • Administrative Details

    No formal registration (Portal2 or ILIAS) is required, but you are invited to join the ILIAS group.

  • Material and Literature

    Lecture Slides:

    Video recordings, exercise solutions and additional materials will be made available in the corresponding ILIAS group.

    The course will be based on the book Database System Concepts by Silberschatz et al.