Syllabus

CS422 Principles of Database Systems

Fall 2012
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: T 3-5pm and R 2-4pm, 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%, In-Class Exercises and Quizzes 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
Buffer Management
 16,17,18,19
12
13
7
 Failure Recovery
 13,14
8
 Veteran's Day
Concurrency Control
14
9
 Record Management
 15
10
 Indexes 21
11
 FINAL
Online Resources:
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.