IS 613 Database Management Systems

  • Instructor: Prof. Sung-Hyuk Cha


  • CRN: 21805

  • Course URL: http://www.csis.pace.edu/~scha/IS613/index.html

  • Meeting:
    • Time: M 6:00~8:45 P.M., Spring 2006
    • Place: GC 428 on M

  • Textbook: Peter Rob and Carlos Coronel, Database Systems: Design, Implementation, & Management, 6th edition, thomson Course Technology, 2004

  • Course Goals:
    This course provides an introduction to database concepts, SQL, and web based database design. The major goal is to provide students with an understanding of the basic concepts underlying the use of a database system. A database management system and Perl will be used as a vehicle for illustrating some of the concepts discussed in the course.

  • Lecture Notes: can be accessed using the http://blackboard.pace.edu.
    Blackboard Login Procedures for Registered Students are available here

  • Schedule:

    WeekTopic
    1 (1/23)Ch 1 Database Systems
    2 (1/30)Ch 2 Data Models & 3 relational Database Model
    3 (2/6) Ch 4 ER Modeling
    4 (2/13) Ch 5 Normalization of Database Tables
    5 (2/20) Ch 6 SQL
    6 (2/27) Ch 7 Advanced SQL
    7 (3/6) Ch 8 Database Design
    8 (3/13) Midterm
    9 (3/20) Ch 9 Transaction Management & Concurrency control
    10 (3/27) Ch 10 Distributed DBMS
    11 (4/3) Ch 11 OODB
    12 (4/10) Ch 12 The data warehouse
    13 (4/17) Ch 13 Databases in Electronic Commerce
    14 (4/24) Ch 14 Web Database Development
    15 (5/1) Ch 15 Database Administration
    16 (5/8) Final Exam
      

  • Evaluation:
    • Online Quizzes (10%): There will be six quizzes.
    • Midterm Exam (30%):
    • Final Exam (30%):
    • Project (30%):