Fall 2017 - CMPT 354 D100

Database Systems I (3)

Class Number: 7076

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 5 – Dec 4, 2017: Tue, 11:30 a.m.–1:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

    Sep 5 – Dec 4, 2017: Thu, 11:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Exam Times + Location:

    Dec 8, 2017
    Fri, 12:00–3:00 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    CMPT 225, and (MACM 101 or (ENSC 251 and ENSC 252)).

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Logical representations of data records. Data models. Studies of some popular file and database systems. Document retrieval. Other related issues such as database administration, data dictionary and security.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course provides an introduction to Database Management System (DBMS). We focus on the most widely used relational data model. Students will become familiar with the design of database applications and use of databases. We study design tools, database modeling and query languages, including the Structured Query Language (SQL).

Topics

  • Overview of database management systems and the relational model, Entity-Relationship diagrams
  • Query languages: relational algebra and calculus
  • SQL: data definition, data manipulation, queries, views, constraints, triggers
  • Query evaluation and optimisation: join strategies, query plans
  • Constraints and triggers
  • Database access from applications: embedded and dynamic SQL
  • Constraints, normal forms
  • Introduction to OLAP (time permitting)
  • Deductive databases: Datalog and recursive queries

Grading

NOTES:

To be announced in the first week of classes. Students must attain an overall passing grade on the weighted average of exams in the course in order to obtain a clear pass (C- or better).

Students must attain an overall passing grade on the weighted average of exams in the course in order to obtain a clear pass (C- or better).

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Database Management Systems, Raghu Ramakrishnan & Johannes Gehrke, McGraw-Hill, 2003
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780072465631

Registrar Notes:

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