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General Information
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Tue/Thu, 2:30 pm - 3:50 pm |
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| Where: |
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5313 Sennott Square Building
(map) |
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| Instructor: |
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Prof. Alexandros Labrinidis
(contact) |
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| TA: |
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Subrata Acharya
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| Purpose: |
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The main objective of this course is to provide an in-depth knowledge of Database Management Systems design.
Important aspects of distributed database systems will also be covered.
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| Prereq: |
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Knowledge of data structures and files, basic operating systems
concepts, and exposure to data models (i.e., CS1555 or its
equivalent). Working knowledge of Java or C/C++ and
familiarity with Unix are assumed.
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| Enrollment: |
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18 students currently registered |
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| Textbook: |
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Database System Concepts,
5th Edition
by A. Silberschatz, H. Korth, and S. Sudarshan,
(c) 2005 McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0-07-295886-3
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| Web page: |
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http://db.cs.pitt.edu/courses/cs2550/spring2006
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Announcements |
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| Apr 15: |
Project #2 is released.
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| Apr 11: |
Posted remaining slides.
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| Apr 06: |
Class meets today as usual.
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| Apr 04: |
No class today; instructor at
ICDE 2006 conference.
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| Apr 03: |
Sample files and a clarification for
Project #1 were posted.
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| Mar 29: |
Posted
slides for Mar 28 and Mar 30
(Timestamps and Multiversion CC)
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| Mar 28: |
Project #1 released.
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| Mar 27: |
Posted
slides on locking.
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| Mar 14: |
Posted today's
slides on transcation processing.
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| Mar 01: |
Posted paper on query optimization in
notes.
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| Feb 28: |
Posted query processing
notes.
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| Feb 7: |
No class today; posted all
class notes until now.
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| Jan 27: |
posted all class notes until class of Jan 26
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| Jan 25: |
web site is up
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