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This document outlines the schedule and introduction for a course on databases. It discusses centralized and distributed databases. Centralized databases can have issues with bottlenecks, communication overhead, and single points of failure. Distributed databases aim to address these issues by fragmenting, allocating, and replicating data across multiple sites for improved performance, availability, and reliability. A distributed database management system (DDBMS) makes the distribution transparent to users. The course will focus on advanced recovery services and concurrency control required for DDBMS.












































