I recently had the opportunity to take an upper-year/graduate-level
course on DBMS internals at my university. While taking that course, I
wrote some notes on course material as a study aid. I thought that
perhaps some of the people on -hackers might find the notes somewhat
useful, so Bruce was kind enough to lend me some webspace to put them
up.
The PDF is here:
http://developer.postgresql.org/~momjian/dbms_notes_neil_conway.pdf
The LaTeX source is here:
http://developer.postgresql.org/~momjian/dbms_notes_neil_conway.tex
The notes cover:
- external sorting - various algorithms required for query evaluation (nested loops join, hash join,
sort-mergejoin, aggregation via sorting, aggregation via hashing, etc.) - query optimization (System-R's
algorithm) - concurrency control - crash recovery
Any improvements or additions to the docs would be very welcome (you
can send me manual corrections or patches against the LaTeX source).
-Neil
