CS-336: Principles of Database Managemnent Systems
01:198:336 Principles of Database Managemnent Systems
Offered in: FALL AND SPRING AND SUMMER
Credits: 4
Objectives: Provides an introduction to the concepts and design
principles used in database management systems.
Overview of principles of physical and logical
database design, query languages, transaction
management, reliability and security. Relational
and Object Oriented Models. Advanced topics will
include database mining, multimedia databases
and web access.
This course is an upper division elective for CS
majors. The course is open to all non-majors.
Prerequisites: 01:198:112 Data Structures
01:198:205 Introduction to Discrete Structures I
Equivalents: No equivalent courses offered by other
departments. Students who previously took
01:198:435 or 01:198:436 can not
take 198:336 for credit.
Outline:
Week 1: Introduction to database systems
Key Principles. History. Entity Relationship Model
Week 2,3,4: Relational Model of Data. Relational Algebra
and Calculus. SQL. Logical Query Optimization.
Week 5,6: Physical Database Design. Primary and Secondary
Indexing. External Hashing. Query execution and
Physical Query Optimization.
Week 7,8: Integrity Constraints.
Relational Database Design. Normal form approach
and its shortcomings. E-R based design. Semantic
Modelling
Week 9,10: Transaction Processing and Concurrency Control.
2 Phase Locking, timestamping.
Week 11: Database Recovery
Week 12: Distributed Databases.
Week 13,14: Object Oriented Databases. Complex Objects.
Persistence. Database Programming Languages.
Advanced Topics: Web access, multimedia, database mining (if time allows).
Expected Work: Homework and programming assignments; project.
Examinations: Midterm exam and final exam.
Required Texts: Database Concepts
by H.Korth and A. Silberchatz