Improving the Efficiency of Database-System Teaching
Summary: Proposes efficiency gains for database-system teaching. Centers on OTC (On-line Testing Center) and 'root questions' that auto-grade long-answer work via a simple MCQ grader, improving SQL homework and offering generalizable benefits to programming courses. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{ullman_sigmod03,
title = {{Improving the Efficiency of Database-System Teaching}},
author = {Ullman, Jeffrey D.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '03},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/872757.872759},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/872757.872759},
year = {2003}
}
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| 8,174 | Databases will Visualize Queries too | 2011 | VLDB | 5.4738201e-05 |
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