Database Managment System INTRODUCTION Introduction

Instructors Dr. Aisha Zulal Shevkli (for lecture) Office: B15- ground floor Email: asevkli@ksu.edu.sa Note: when you email us please insert [IT331] in the subject line and include your REAL name, otherwise we will not answer your email. T.A. Abeer Al-Dayel (for DBA-lab) Office : Room 813  – 3rd Floor - Building 9 Email:aabeer@ksu.edu.sa T.A. Aseel Al-Turki (Tutorial) Email:  aseel.alturki@gmail.com Introduction

Textbooks Primary: Supplementary: Thomas Connolly and Carolyn Begg, Database Systems, Addison Wesley, 5thedition – 2010. Supplementary: Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant B. Navathe, Fundamentals of Database Systems, Addison Wesley, 6th edition 2010. Introduction

Course Content Topics # Weeks Transaction Processing and Concurrency Control 4 Recovery management 1 Query Processing 3 Distributed Databases Projects Presentations Introduction

Laboratory Content Topics # Weeks Introduction to DBA 1 Oracle Database Architecture Oracle Installation and Database Creation and Oracle Database Instance Management   Oracle Net Environment Configuration and User Security Administration  Performance Monitoring, Backup and Recovery Introduction

Course Learning Outcomes Comprehend, apply and evaluate the different techniques used in concurrency control and recovery and find advantages and disadvantages of each. Also, propose improvements to them. Comprehend and apply query processing methodologies Analyze and design a suitable database fragmentation based on a given a set of demands and constraints and decide the best way of executing queries on them. Learn and apply database administration techniques, taking Oracle as an example Have knowledge of emerging database technologies such as Object- Oriented Databases, Object-Relational Databases, Data Warehouse and Data Mining techniques, Mobile Database, XML Introduction

Grading Midterms (2) 25% Quizzes (2) 10% Weekly Assignments 5% DBA-lab Project Final Exam 40% Introduction

Exam Dates quiz #1 : Sunday 16-10-2011 mid #1 : Sunday 23-10-2011 Introduction

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