1. Dr. Shiyong Lu shiyong@cs.wayne.edu Wayne State Univesrity
Course Introduction
Dr. Shiyong Lu
Wayne State Univesrity

2. About the Instructor Dr. Shiyong Lu Advising students
Teaching database classes
Research on scientific workflows
Dr. Shiyong Lu

3. CSC7710:Database Management System II
Time: 4:30-5:50PM TuTh
Place: State Hall 318
Webpage:

4. What is this course about?
Transaction processing (ACID)
Concurrency control
Locking & logging
Distributed databases and transactions

5. Goal of the course
Knowledge of transaction processing, concurrency control, and distributed databases
Apply the knowledge to collaborative editing of scientific workflows.

6. Prerequisite CSC6710 Or with the permission of the instructor
Java, JDBC and SQL programming

7. Instructor’s office hours
Shiyong Lu
Office: 3006 Maccabees bldg 
Telephone:
Office hours: Tu, Th 11-12PM or by appointment.

8. TA office hours
None
Office: TBA
Telephone: TBA
Office hours: TBA.

9. Course load and grading
(45 %) 3 Assignments, 15% each.
(40 %) One course project, two parts, graded together in the end.
(15 %) Final exam.

10. Late work penalty
You can have one late assignment submission up to one week without any penalty. Please me in advance when you need to use your execuse. If late excuse is not used, a penalty of 2 % per day will be assessed up to one week. No credits will be given for works handed in one week after the due date. The late excuse cannot be used for the final project. 

11. Academic honesty
Copying an assignment from another student in this class or obtaining a solution from some other source will lead to an automatic failure for this course and to a disciplinary action. Allowing another student to copy one's work will be treated as an act of academic dishonesty, leading to the same penalty as copying.

12. Assignment 1 Install Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/
Learn Linux commands:
Install mysql:
Install Apache Tomcat:
Write a Web-based application that uses HTML, Javascript, Java, and mysql.