CSC 411/511: DBMS Design CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 1 Course Outline

CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 2 Instructor Instructors: –Nan Wang Office: TEC 232 Phone: (601) Meeting time and location: –1:00PM – 2:15PM Tu/Th –Classroom: MCL160

CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 3 Course Home Page Course URL [link]link – Office hours –9:30AM – 11:30AM Tu/Th Course announcements –Available online or in classroom About lecture notes –Usually available on the course homepage

CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 4 Prerequisites CSC 307 Data Structure and Algorithm Analysis Some programming language background C++ Java PHP Perl etc

CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 5 Textbook –Database Management Systems, 3rd Ed. –by Raghu Ramakrishnan –McGrw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math –ISBN:

CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 6 Course Description This course introduces the fundamental concepts of database management –Data models –Database design –Database languages (SQL) –Storage –Development

CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 7 Topics Topics to be covered include: –Introduction to database management –The entity relationship data model and conceptual schema design –The relational data model and relational database design –SQL and relational algebra –Storage and indexing –MySQL and Oracle database –Application development –Other selected topics

CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 8 Objectives Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: –become proficient at modeling databases at conceptual and logical levels of design –be able to develop database schemas with principled design that enforce data integrity –become knowledgeable in the creation, altering, and manipulation of tables, indexes, and views using relational algebra and SQL –become proficient at writing queries in SQL to retrieve data from database –be able to develop and maintain Oracle database, and write application programs

CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 9 Use Oracle 10g Database Use MySQL 5.0

CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 10 Schedule See course home pagecourse home page –Available

CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 11 Grading Your course grade consists of 4 components: –Attendance 5% –Assignments 15% –Projects 30% –Exams 30% –Final exam 20% Course grading scale: –90% - 100% A –80% - 89% B –70% - 79% C –60% - 69% D –0% - 59% F

CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 12 Homework Policy Homework policy –The requirements are given on the course homepage –All assignments and projects are mandatory for all students –Assignments must be handed in by the due time. No late assignment will be accepted unless compelling reasons can be supplied and verified. Late assignments will receive no grade. Grader

CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 13 Honesty Students are expected to do their own work on all assignments The code, writing and final result that you hand in must be your own effort but you are welcome to discuss general issues with instructor and other students Cheating or plagiarism of any kind will not be tolerated This doesn’t apply to the group assignment

CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 14 Attendance Students are expected to attend all classes

CSC 411/511: DBMS Design CSC411_L0_OutlineDr. Nan Wang 15 Questions?