CS348 Study Guide - Database Server, Sparse Matrix, Jdbc Driver

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: CS348
• Professor: Ahmed A Ataullah

Document Summary

The goal of this assignment is to develop your programming skills when querying a database server through an external program. The assignment also highlights a drawback of rdbms in that they are excellent for storing relational data but not necessarily optimal for specific applications where the data or operations on the data are not relational in nature. You are required to complete assignment 0 before starting this assignment. The schema and table definitions for this assignment have already been provided to you and if you have completed assignment 0 you can begin writing code for this assignment immediately. A sparse matrix is one in which most of the entries are zero. The following example of a sparse matrix is taken from the wikipedia entry for sparse matrix and it shows a matrix that contains only 9 nonzero elements of the 35, with 26 of those elements as zero.