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July 9 2019: pdf of the book is now available for free here.



March 3 2016: Request a lecturers copy of patterns in data management here.



March 1 2016: both the ebook and the paperback (with color graphics!) are now available at amazon: Patterns in Data Management: A Flipped Textbook (English Edition)



Feb 3 2016: ebook now available at amazon: Patterns in Data Management: A Flipped Textbook (English Edition)

Dec 9 2015: excerpt from my new book Patterns in Data Management available for download



Dec 14 2015: book walkthrough:





This page contains a directory of instructional videos in English about database technology. As of September 2014 roughly half of them, this is about 80 videos, are in English (the ones starting with 14.**). Those videos are mainly about the algorithms, index structures, data layouts and other important technologies required to make databases perform very well on large datasets. People are also calling this stuff "big data" these days, whatever that hype term means. So if you feel like that sounds cooler in your CV, you may assume that thes videos are about big data technologies. The video material handles traditional disk-based and main-memory techniques at the same time wherever possible. You will learn that often very similar techniques are used at different levels of the storage hierarchy. At Saarland University I use this material for my flipped classroom (aka inverted classroom) on database technology. At Saarland University this course is offered as a 4+2 "core" lecture, i.e. this lecture can either be attended in the third year of your BSc or as part of your MSc. The first instance of this flipped classroom happened in summer term 2014. The second will happen in winter term 2014/15 (with some minor changes here and there, in particular a slightly reduced workload).



Notice that below each video in the listing below there is a link to downloadable slides used to produced that video, each in two versions: 1. original slides , and 2. inverted colors for easier printing.



The videos are also publicly available through my youtube channel which you may subscribe to here to not miss any new videos:



If you have any comments on this material, any praise, bugs, etc: send me an email.