COSC 3480 News and Activities Spring 2006

COSC 3480 Lab, Christoph F. Eick 2 COSC 3480 Tentative Schedule  Exam1: Tu., Feb. 28, 2006  Exam2: Th., April 6, 2006  Final Exam: ??, May ??, 2006 (see catalogue)  Lab starts on Tu., January 31, 2006

COSC 3480 Lab, Christoph F. Eick 3 News and General Information  Reading the textbook in the first week of February 2006  Read Chapter 1 of the textbook (covers introductory material we discussed in January)  Read section 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 (how define relations, constraints,…  useful for the lab)  Read sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and Section 4.2 (this is what will be covered this week)  Access regularly

Announcements and Discussion  Huiyuan (“Cindy”) Ma will be teaching the COSC 3480 Lab  The COSC 3480 starts on Th., January 26, 2006 at 8:30a in 376 PGH  The lab is subdivided into lab exercises and lab projects  Lab exercises you perform during the lab time; the are a preparation for the lab projects, and have to be submitted to the lab instructor, usually at the end of the lab session  Lab projects have to be submitted at a specific deadline.  About 10-15% of the credit associated with the lab are allocated for lab exercises and 85-90% are allocated to lab projects.  The lab will be held regularly through end of March 2006, and less regularly in the last 4 weeks of the semester.  There will be no lab on days when there is a COSC 3480 exam  There will a makeup class and no lab on Tu., March 7, 2006  Program demos for Project5 will be held during the lab time.

COSC 3480 Lab, Christoph F. Eick 5 Lab Project Preview  Project 1: Defining Relations 1 week  Project 2/3: Writing SQL queries 2 weeks  Project 4: Views, PL/SQL, triggers, report generators,… 3 weeks  Project 5: Database design, creating a database application, C# interface to Oracle, updating a database, designing user interfaces… 4 weeks  Project 6: TBDL 1 week

COSC 3480 Lab, Christoph F. Eick 6 Relationship of Lab to Other Elements of the Course  Lab and Lecture/Exams/Homeworks are complementary  Topics covered in the lab but not in the class  PL/SQL  Triggers  Database Programming  How to use a DBMS  [Object-relation features of Oracle]  Topics covered by both class and lab (but complementary)  Relational data model  Database Design  Writing SQL queries  [Data Cubes and the Multi-dimensional Data Model}  Topics covered in lecture only  Relational Algebra  Entity-Relationship Data Model  Writing SQL Queries

Learn how to define tables Learn how to load and create an Oracle database Learn how to define user views Data Warehousing OLAP/Data Cubes Conceptual Schema Design Generate SQL Plus reports Learn PL/SQL basics PL/SQL Cursors PL/SQL Functions Procedures and Packages PL/SQL Triggers Developer 2000 Datablock Forms Developer 2000 reports ODL/OQL basics Learn how to write complex SQL Queries Data Mining MS SQL 2000 Analysis Server Decision Trees Clustering Oracle9i Relational Database Design Lab 2006 Activities Object-Relational features Support for XML Java/C++ Interfaces Other DBMS (Access/Server 2003