CS422 Principles of Database Systems

Fall 2015
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Lectures:

Monday and Wednesday 1:30pm - 3:10pm in E&T A210

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hours: MW 3:10-5pm or by appointment, in E&T A317

Course Description:

The first part of the course covers topics related to database development, including Entity-Relationship model, normalization, transactions, SQL, procedure languages, and some performance tuning techniques. The second part of the course explores the internals of a database management system and discusses the details of disk access, memory access, query processing, concurrency control, and failure recovery.

Prerequisites:

CS122 and CS312

Textbook(s):

Database Design and Implementation, by Edward Sciore.

Software Tools:

Required - Email, and PostgreSQL
Optional (for access online lecture notes) - Adobe Acroread and/or MS PowerPoint

Grading Policy:

Homework 45%, Exercises 15%, Midterm 20%, Final 20%

90 - 100
80 - 90
60 - 80
40 - 60
below 40

A
B
C
D
F

Schedule:

Week	Topics	Chapters
1	Administrative Issues Course Overview Entity-Relationship (ER) Model	1 3
2	Convert ER Design to Relations Normalization	2,3 2,3
3	SQL and Transactions	4,14
4	Stored Procedures and Triggers	5
5	MIDTERM
6	Query Execution Disk Access Record Management	16,17,18,19 12 15
7	Buffer Management Veterans Day	13
8	Failure Recovery	13,14
9	Concurrency Control	14
10	Indexes Introduction to NoSQL	21
11	FINAL

Online Resources:

Class home page - http://csns.calstatela.edu/site/f15/cs422-1
Class forum - http://csns.calstatela.edu/department/cs/forum/view?id=31025
SimpleDB - http://cs.bc.edu/~sciore/simpledb/intro.html

Academic Integrity:

Cheating will not be tolerated. Cheating on any assignment or exam will be taken seriously. All parties involved will receive a grade of F for the course and be reported to the Academic Senate.