1. Instructors: Churee Techawut
CS 321 Database System I
Instructors: Churee Techawut
Lecture: Thursday 12:30 – 14:20 CSB309
Lab: Monday 12:30 – 14:20 CSB303
Section 2 Semester 1 Year 2007

2. Course Outline Lecture Week 1. Introduction to database systems 1,2
2. Storage structure 3
3. File organizations and indexes
4,5
4. Tree-structured indexing 6
5. Basic concepts of relational databases 7
6. Entity-Relationship (E-R) diagram
8,9,10
7. Normalization
11,12
8. Relational languages
13,14,15

3. Course Outline Lab 1. File processing (in C programming language)
2. Use of a typical commercial database package
3. Entity relationship model
4. Query language - SQL
5. Database applications

4. Course Assessment Descriptions Percentages
1. Midterm exam (during AUG 1-7, 2007) 30
2. Lab assignments 10
3. Quiz
4. Final exam (during OCT 1-7, 2007) 50

5. Textbook R. Elmasri, S.B. Navathe:
Fundamentals of Database Systems, Addison Wesley, Third Edition, 2000.
R. Ramakrishnan, J. Gehrke:
Database Management Systems, McGraw-Hill, Second Edition, 2000.
C.J. Date:
Introduction to Database Systems, Addison Wesley, Seventh Edition, 2000.
A. Hoffer, M.B. Prescott, F.R. McFadden:
Modern Database Management, Prentice Hall, Sixth Edition, 2002.