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Notes for Unit 3, Unit 4, and Unit 5 (Database Management System)

Unit 3: Database Design & Normalization

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1. Functional Dependencies:

- A relationship between two attributes, typically between a primary key and other non-key

attributes.

2. Normal Forms:

- First Normal Form (1NF): Eliminate duplicate columns and ensure each column holds atomic

values.

- Second Normal Form (2NF): Remove partial dependencies (each non-key attribute must depend

on the entire primary key).

- Third Normal Form (3NF): Remove transitive dependencies (non-key attributes should only

depend on the primary key).

3. Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF):

- A stricter version of 3NF where every determinant is a candidate key.

4. Inclusion Dependencies:

- Ensures that a set of values in one table is a subset of values in another.

5. Lossless Join Decomposition:

- Splitting a relation into two or more relations such that the original relation can be reconstructed

without loss of data.


6. Normalization Using FD, MVD, and JD:

- FD (Functional Dependency): Guides decomposition to achieve normalization.

- MVD (Multivalued Dependency): Used for further decomposition.

- JD (Join Dependency): Ensures lossless joins.

7. Alternative Approaches to Database Design:

- Bottom-up, top-down, and hybrid approaches.

Unit 4: Transaction Processing Concepts

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1. Transaction System:

- A sequence of operations performed as a single logical unit of work.

2. Testing Serializability:

- Ensures the schedule is conflict-serializable or view-serializable to maintain database

consistency.

3. Types of Schedules:

- Serializable, non-serializable, recoverable, and non-recoverable schedules.

4. Conflict and View Serializable Schedules:

- Conflict Serializable: Ensures no conflicting operations are reordered.

- View Serializable: Ensures the final state matches a serial execution.

5. Recoverability:

- A schedule is recoverable if transactions commit only after all transactions they depend on

commit.
6. Recovery from Transaction Failures:

- Techniques like undo/redo logs and shadow paging.

7. Log-based Recovery:

- Write-ahead logging (WAL) ensures logs are saved before actual database changes.

8. Checkpoints:

- Periodic save points in logs to reduce recovery time.

9. Deadlock Handling:

- Techniques like wait-die, wound-wait, and deadlock detection.

Unit 5: Concurrency Control Techniques

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1. Concurrency Control:

- Mechanisms to ensure correct execution of transactions in the presence of concurrent

operations.

2. Locking Techniques:

- Shared and exclusive locks, two-phase locking protocol (2PL).

3. Time Stamping Protocols:

- Assign timestamps to transactions to resolve conflicts.

4. Validation-based Protocols:

- Transactions go through read, validation, and write phases to ensure serializability.


5. Multiple Granularity:

- Locking at different levels (e.g., row, table, database).

6. Multi-version Schemes:

- Maintain multiple versions of data items for concurrency.

7. Recovery with Concurrent Transactions:

- Ensures atomicity and consistency during recovery.

References:

- Date C.J.: An Introduction to Database Systems, Pearson Education.

- Other recommended resources as per syllabus.

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