Contribution delivered in the School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences (SEGG, now SELS) at the University of Portsmouth in the 2015-2016 academic year.
GIS and Database Management Systems was open to L5 (2nd year) students of Geography, Adrian’s contribution covered one two-hour teaching and demonstration slot.
A step back in time, involving scanning and converting a Professor’s ancient acetates into PowerPoint to explain and, more importantly, demonstrate the concept of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) and Structured Query Language (SQL) in GIS.
The Oracle 8 (?) user manual had never looked so good and the lecture was better received than this slice of history would suggest…
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