Simon Fraser University
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Course Outlines

Spring 2022 - CMPT 354 D100

Database Systems I (3)

Class Number: 6631

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 10 – Apr 11, 2022: Mon, 10:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

    Jan 10 – Apr 11, 2022: Wed, 10:30–11:20 a.m.
    Burnaby

  • Exam Times + Location:

    Apr 26, 2022
    Tue, 7:00–10:00 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    CMPT 225 and (MACM 101 or (ENSC 251 and ENSC 252)), all with a minimum grade of C-.

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:

The global database market has over 50 billion U.S. dollars in size. Millions of web/mobile applications are using database systems to manage their data. SQL has become a prerequisite skill for being a data scientist or a data engineer. Now is the most exciting time to learn database systems. In this first database course, we will cover database design and the use of databases in applications, with a short introduction to NoSQL and SQL-on-Hadoop. The course includes extensive coverage of the relational model, relational algebra, SQL, normalization, and database constraints. After this course, the students should have a deep understanding of how to design a database for applications and how to query and manipulate data using SQL.

Topics

  • Database History
  • Data Model
  • SQL
  • Relational Algebra
  • Storage and Indexing
  • Database Design
  • Query Processing
  • Transaction Processing
  • NoSQL and Data Science & Data Engineering

Grading

NOTES:

WIll be discussed in the first class

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

Reference Book:
Database Systems: The Complete Book, Second Edition, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom, Prentice Hall, 2008, 9780131873254

REQUIRED READING:

Database Management Systems, Third Edition., Raghu Ramakrishnan/Johannes Gehrke, McGraw Hill, 2002
ISBN: 9780072465631

Registrar Notes:

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TEACHING AT SFU IN SPRING 2022

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