IT 605 & IS 613 Database Management Systems

  • Instructor: Prof. Sung-Hyuk Cha


  • CRN: 73169 & 71239

  • Course URL: http://www.csis.pace.edu/~scha/IT605F06/index.html

  • Meeting:
    • Time: Tuesday 6:00 pm - 8:45 pm, Fall 2006
    • Place: Graduate Center, GC430

  • Textbook: Peter Rob and Carlos Coronel, Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, 7th edition, thomson Course Technology, 2007

  • 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 (9/12)Ch 1 Database Systems
    2 (9/19)Ch 2 Data Models
    3 (9/26) 3 relational Database Model
    4 (10/3) Ch 4 ER Modeling Ch 5 Normalization of Database Tables
    5 (10/10) Ch 4 ER Modeling
    6 (2/27) Ch 5 Normalization of Database Tables
    7 (10/17) Review
    8 (10/24) Midterm
    9 (10/31) Ch 6 SQL
    10 (11/7) Ch 6 SQL
    11 (11/14) Ch 7 Advanced SQL
    12 (11/21) Ch 9 Transaction Management & Concurrency control
    13 (11/28) Ch 12 The data warehouse
    14 (12/5) Ch 13 Databases in Electronic Commerce
    15 (12/12) Final Exam
      

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