This schedule is tentative and subject to change. All readings are in Fundamentals of Database Systems, Seventh Edition.
| Week | Date | Topic |
Reading |
| 1 | January 22 | Syllabus review, course requirements, etc. Database Concepts The Entity-Relationship (ER) Model |
Ch. 1, 2 |
| 2 | January 29 | Basic SQL and More SQL Database Programming |
Ch. 6,7 Ch. 10 |
| 3 | February 5 |
The Enhanced Entity-Relationship Model |
Ch. 3, 4,5 |
| 4 | February 12 | No class | |
| 5 | February 19 | Relational database design by ER to EER mapping Midterm Review Exam 1 on Chapters 1-7, and 9 |
Ch. 9 |
| 6 | February 26 | Relational Algebra and Calculus |
Ch. 8 |
| 7 | March 5 | File Structures; Index Structures | Ch. 16, 17 |
| 8 | March 12 |
No Class |
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| 9 | March 19 | No Class | |
| 10 | March 26 |
Functional Dependency and Normalization |
Ch. 14 Ch. 15 |
| 11 | April 2 | No Class | |
| 12 | April 9 | Query Processing & Optimization | Ch. 18 Ch. 19 |
| 13 | April 16 | Transaction Processing Concurrency Control |
Ch. 20 |
| 14 | April 23 | Database Recovery Techniques Test 2 review |
Ch. 22 |
| 15 | April 30 | No Class |