1. COSC 3480 Projects & Homeworks Fall 2003
The slides for this text are organized into chapters. This lecture covers Chapter 3.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Database Systems
Chapter 2: The Entity-Relationship Model
Chapter 3: The Relational Model
Chapter 4 (Part A): Relational Algebra
Chapter 4 (Part B): Relational Calculus
Chapter 5: SQL: Queries, Programming, Triggers
Chapter 6: Query-by-Example (QBE)
Chapter 7: Storing Data: Disks and Files
Chapter 8: File Organizations and Indexing
Chapter 9: Tree-Structured Indexing
Chapter 10: Hash-Based Indexing
Chapter 11: External Sorting
Chapter 12 (Part A): Evaluation of Relational Operators
Chapter 12 (Part B): Evaluation of Relational Operators: Other Techniques
Chapter 13: Introduction to Query Optimization
Chapter 14: A Typical Relational Optimizer
Chapter 15: Schema Refinement and Normal Forms
Chapter 16 (Part A): Physical Database Design
Chapter 16 (Part B): Database Tuning
Chapter 17: Security
Chapter 18: Transaction Management Overview
Chapter 19: Concurrency Control
Chapter 20: Crash Recovery
Chapter 21: Parallel and Distributed Databases
Chapter 22: Internet Databases
Chapter 23: Decision Support
Chapter 24: Data Mining
Chapter 25: Object-Database Systems
Chapter 26: Spatial Data Management
Chapter 27: Deductive Databases
Chapter 28: Additional Topics 1

2. Lab 2003 Activities MS SQL 2000 Analysis Server Oracle8/9i Conceptual
Schema Design
Relational
Database Design
Learn how to
define tables
Data Mining
Decision Trees
Clustering
ODL/OQL
basics
Learn how to load
and create an
Oracle database
MS SQL 2000
Analysis Server
PL/SQL
Triggers
PL/SQL
Cursors
PL/SQL Functions
Procedures and Packages
OLAP
Oracle8/9i
Data Warehousing
Learn how to
define user views
Learn how to write
complex SQL Queries
Developer 2000
Datablock Forms
Generate SQL Plus
reports
Learn PL/SQL
basics
Developer
2000 reports
Object-Relational features
Java/C++ Interfaces
Support for XML
Lab 2003 Activities 6

3. COSC 3480 Lab Projects I
There will be 6 lab projects; 5 will be programming projects, one will be a design project.
The TU/TH Lab (Sessions 5:30-7:00p) in 200 PGH
Instructor Aditya Toomula
The lab sessions will be help in 200 PGH; that host 45 stand-alone computers that are connected to the internet (no floppy, no CD).
Vision: Usually, there will be a short lecture and then students will be given a task that is similar to the tasks in the 6 lab projects and each student tries his best to solve the task on his lab computer.
Moreover, sometimes the will be just QA-sessions; other activities include discussions of homework / exams, student presentations, makeup classes during the lab time; occasionally, there will be no lab at all. A lab schedule will be available on the web soon. 6

4. COSC 3480 Lab Projects II
Lab projects can be performed by accessing the departmental Oracle server; accounts are currently created. It is also okay, if you install Oracle 8i, 9i, 8.17 on your own computer and perform the projects on your own computer.
As I know the “short lecture-do_tasks_on_lab_computer” approach will be used the first time when teaching COSC 3480; therefore:
There likely will be problems at the beginning; it is not 100% certain if what I /we have in mind will work.
Your feedback is appreciated.
We might adapt our teaching approach based on experiences in the first lab sessions.
The lab sessions will hopefully start on Tu., September 9. 6

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