Classes meet on the Fridays shown below from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Dinner is included.
This schedule is tentative and subject to change. All readings are in Fundamentals of Database Systems, Seventh Edition.
| Week | Date | Topic |
Reading |
| 1 | Jan 19 | Syllabus review, course requirements, etc. Database Concepts The Entity-Relationship (ER) Model |
Ch. 1, 2 |
| 2 | Jan 26 | Basic SQL and More SQL Database Programming |
Ch. 6,7 Ch. 10 |
| 3 | Feb 3 | No class | |
| 4 | Feb 9 |
The Enhanced Entity-Relationship Model |
Ch. 3, 4,5 |
| 5 | Feb 16 |
Relational database design by ER to EER mapping Midterm Review Test 1 on Chapters 1-7, and 9 |
Ch. 9 |
| 6 | Feb 23 | Relational Algebra and Calculus | Ch. 8 |
| 7 | Mar 1 | File Structures; Index Structures | Ch. 16, 17 |
| 8 | Mar 8 | No Class -- Spring Break | |
| 9 | Mar 15 |
No Class |
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| 10 | Mar 22 |
Functional Dependency and Normalization Design Algorithms & Further Dependencies |
Ch. 14 Ch. 15 |
| 11 | Mar 29 | No class -- Good Friday | |
| 12 | Apr 5 | Query Processing & Optimization | Ch. 18 Ch. 19 |
| 13 | Apr 12 | Transaction Processing Concurrency Control |
Ch. 20 |
| 14 | Apr 19 | Database Recovery Techniques Test 2 review |
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| 15 | Apr 26 | Test 2 on Chapters 8, 14-20 per agrement. |