General Information

When:   Monday/Wednesday, 3:00 - 4:15 pm
Where: 5129 Sennott Square Building
Instructor: Prof. Panos K. Chrysanthis (contact)
TA: Roxana Gheorghiu (contact)
Recitations: Friday   2:00-2:50pm (CRN# 21606 & 21606) and
Friday   4:00-4:50pm (CRN# 21608 & 21608)
at 6110 Sennott Square Building

Purpose: There are two principle objectives for this course. First, to introduce the fundamental concepts necessary for the design and use of a database. Second, to provide practical experience in applying these concepts using commercial database management systems.
Prereq: A grade of C or better in CS 0441 and CS 0445 is required. Working knowledge of Java and familiarity with Unix are assumed.
Enrollment: Open to all students having the prerequisites;
max 40 students in 1555 (40 currently registered) and 6 in 2055 (6 currently registered)
Textbook: Fundamentals of Database Systems, 6th Edition Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant B. Navathe, Addison-Wesley (c) 2011
(ISBN-10: 0-13-608620-9; ISBN-13: 978-0-13-608620-8)
Reference: Oracle10g Programming: A Primer, R. Sunderraman, Addison-Wesley, 2007
Learning SQL, 2nd Edition, Alan Beaulieu, O'Reilly 2009 (Available online from campus computers through Safari Bookshelf).

Announcements
Apr. 22: HW7 sample solutions were posted
Mar. 1: Final Exam Review: 2-4pm, Apr. 23, 2013 @ 5317SQ
Apr. 10: Notes on ER Modeling and Transaction Recovery were posted
Apr. 15: HW6 sample solutions were posted
Apr. 12: HW7 was released & is due on Apr. 20
Apr. 10: Notes on Normalization were posted
Apr. 3: Notes on Query Optimization were posted
Apr. 1: Notes on Physical Organization (Set #4) were posted
Apr. 1: HW6 was released & is due on Apr. 11
Mar. 30: Notes on Physical Organization (Set #1-3) were posted
Mar 30: Notes on Concurrency Control were posted
Mar. 30: Recitation 10 handouts & solutions were posted
Mar. 18: Recitation 9 handouts & solutions were posted
Mar. 3: Recitation 8 solutions were posted
Mar. 3: HW4 & HW5 sample solutions were posted
Mar. 1: Midterm Reviews: 2-3pm & 5:30-6:30pm, Mar. 5, 2013 @ 5317SQ
Mar. 1: Recitation 8 handouts were posted

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