1. Database Managment System
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2. Instructors Dr. Aisha Zulal Shevkli (for lecture)
Office: B15- ground floor
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T.A. Abeer Al-Dayel (for DBA-lab)
Office : Room 813  – 3rd Floor - Building 9
T.A. Aseel Al-Turki (Tutorial)
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3. 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.
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4. Course Content Topics # Weeks
Transaction Processing and Concurrency Control 4
Recovery management 1
Query Processing 3
Distributed Databases
Projects Presentations
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5. 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
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6. 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
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7. Grading Midterms (2) 25% Quizzes (2) 10% Weekly Assignments 5% DBA-lab
Project
Final Exam
40%
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8. Exam Dates quiz #1 : Sunday 16-10-2011 mid #1 : Sunday 23-10-2011
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9. Course Website
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