ECE356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Auxiliary Memory, Mcgraw-Hill Education, Glossary Of Ancient Roman Religion

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Course: ECE356
• Professor: Zarnett

Document Summary

Until this point in the course we have looked at databases more from the perspective of application developers: people who use the database for a speci c purpose. This conceptual level has been useful for telling us about how to interact with databases and even how to (re)design data storage in the database to meet certain goals. That may have been entirely review for those who have signi cant experience with using databases. Now it is time to move into the implementation side of the database. Treating the database as some sort of black box may be convenient, but we are interested in knowing how it does what it does. Our rst foray into the behind-the-scenes will be about how the data is stored. This will call back to what you have learned in operating systems about memory and storage. If you need to, now is a good time to review that material to read up on it.