Syllabus and Schedule

Lecture

Day

Topic Covered

Assignments/Exams

1

Aug 22

Ch1&2

Introduction

 

2

Aug 24

 

3

Aug 29

Ch3

The ER Model

 

4

Aug 31

 

5

Sep 05

 

6

Sep 07

Ch5&7 The Relational Model

 

7

Sep 12

 

8

Sep 14

Ch6

The Relational Algebra and Relational Calculus

Assignment 1 Due

9

Sep 19

 

10

Sep 21

 

11

Sep 26

Ch8&9 SQL

 

12

Sep 28

 

13

Oct 03

Oracle9i Ch2&5 Oracle SQL & JDBC

Assignment 2 Due

14

Oct 05

Exam1

 

15

Oct 10

Ch10&11

Functional Dependencies and Normalization

 

16

Oct 12

1 page abstract of the term paper Due 

17

Oct 17

 

18

Oct 19

 

19

Oct 24

Ch13

Storage

Assignment 3 Due

20

Oct 26

 

21

Oct 31

Ch14 Indexing

 

22

Nov 02

Project Due 

23

Nov 07

 

24

Nov 09 Oracle9i Ch7 Java Servlets

 

25

Nov 14

Ch17&18 Transaction Management and Concurrency Control

Assignment 4 Due 

26

Nov 16 Exam2

Assignment 4 Due 

 

Nov 21

Thanksgiving Holidays

 

 

Nov 23

 

27

Nov 28

Cancelled

Bonus Project Due

28

Nov 30

Ch27&28

Data Mining, Data Warehousing and OLAP

 

29

Dec 05

6710 Presentations (Chunyu, Lindsey, Telvis, Bin)

 

30

Dec 07

6710 Presentations (Chris, Saeideh, Kaushal, Yiwei)

Assignment 5 & Term Paper Due

 

Dec 12

Exam3

 

NOTE: This syllabus represents a general plan and it is subject to change.