Teaching consists of a mix of lectures and exercises. The exercises are in the form of tuning experiments. The written exam will have the same form as the exercises . ---- The schedule will be available shortly before the beginning of the term. See the schedule here: link to the time table ----- NB!! Course restriction!! Please note that there is a course restriction between this course and the SDT courses Database Tuning, Scientific Data Management and Advanced Data Management. That means that you cannot take this course, if you have already taken Database Tuning, Advanced Data Management and Scientific Data Management, and that you cannot take Scientific Data Management if you take this course. In order to complete the Database specialization on SDT, you need to take the course Database Tuning II.