CMSC 424 Fall 2010

CMSC 424 Section 0101 Fall 2010

Prerequisite: A grade of C or better in CMSC 330 and 351. The goal of this course is to introduce students to database systems and motivate the database approach as a mechanism for modeling the real world. The course will cover in depth the relational model, logical database design, query languages, and other database concepts including query optimization, concurrency control, transaction management, and log based crash recovery. Distributed and Web architecture databases will also be discussed. The class project requires a complete analysis, design, and implementation of a database application.

CLASS & OFFICE HOURS
Class meets TuTh 11:00-12:15pm, Room CSI 3120

Professor: Nick Roussopoulos
Email:
Office hours: Wed 1-2 pm or by appointment
Office AVW 3235, Tel. 405-2687

TA: Theodoros Rekatsinas
Email: thodrek@umd.edu
Office hours: Mo 10-11am Th 2-3pm
Office: AVW 1112

TA's Announcements and Course Material

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Class Accounts

HOMEWORKS

3-4 Homeworks and 2 SQL Query assignments will be given

Homework 1: Due 9-16-2010

Homework 1 Solution

Homework on Query Processing

Solutions to Query Processing Homework

READING & PREPARING FOR THE COURSE

Course Syllabus (UPDATED-dates still approximate)

Lecture Slides 1-41

Lecture Slides 42-58

Lecture Slides 59-91

SQL Slide Examples from the textbook

Lecture Slides 113-148

Lecture Slides 149-189

Lecture Slides 190-252

Lecture Slides 253-277

Lecture Slides 278-336

Lecture Slides 337-364

Lecture Slides 365-386

READING & PREPARING FOR THE MIDTERM

Ranges [X-Y] include both endpoints both X,Y.
Chapters: 1,2,3, 5,6,[7-7.9],[8-8.5 except 8.4.3,10] and Lecture notes

SAMPLE MIDTERM

SAMPLE MIDTERM SOLUTIONS

Midterm's Solutions

READING & PREPARING FOR THE FINAL (comprehensive)

All the midterm readings and the following (ranges X-Y include both endpoints X and Y)
chapters 10,11, [12-12.7.1 (except of hybrid hash join)], [13-13.5] [14-14.8] [15-15.1.4] [16-16.6], [17-17.3.3.4],
[20-20.8 except 20.4.1.1-20.4.4], [22-22.2], and Lecture notes

Sample Final

Sample Final Solutions

PROJECT INFO

Oracle 10 Online Documentation

Project Description

The DB Methodology Slides with the OlympicChronicle Example - Phases I-III

A complete Project (Sample)

Another Database Design example

TEXT BOOK

Required text: Korth & Silberschatz "Database System Concepts," 6th Edition, McGraw Hill 2011. Note the CD version of the book is NOT required.

I HIGHLY recommend reading ahead from the text and the notes even if you don't understand most of the concepts. This gives you a big advantage in understanding the material while covered in class and it saves enormously when you read the material and do the practice exersizes of the book.

GRADING

A student's grading will be determined from homeworks (5%), two SQL assignments (10%), a midterm (22%), a final exam (33%) and a project (30%). The project requires analysis, design, development, implementation, and documentation in three phases. Phase I: Requirement Analysis and System Analysis; Phase II: Schema and Application Program design; and Phase III: Implementation followed by a demo.

Make-up policy: No make-up exam will be given except for medical and emergency reasons.

Delayed work: No delayed work will be accepted, unless accompanied by a doctor's note.

Cheating: If caught in a cheating situation your database transactions will be aborted!

EXCUSED ABSENSES DUE TO ILLNESS

Students claiming a excused absence must apply in writing and furnish documentary support (such as from a health care professional who treated the student) for any assertion that the absence qualifies as an excused absence. The support should explicitly indicate the dates or times the student was incapacitated due to illness. Self-documentation of illness is not itself sufficient support to excuse the absence. An instructor is not under obligation to offer a substitute assignment or to give a student a make-up assessment unless the failure to perform was due to an excused absence. An excused absence for an individual typically does not translate into an extension for team deliverables on a project.

DISABILITY

Any student eligible for and requesting reasonable academic accommodations due to a disability is requested to provide, to the instructor in office hours, a letter of accommodation from the Office of Disability Support Services (DSS) within the first two weeks of the semester.

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