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Last Year's Syllabus (Hellerstein/Garofalakis)

Tentative syllabus, subject to change. Last updated 10/11/06
Date Topic Chapter in R&G
8/30 intro 1
9/1 Relational Model 3
9/5 Disks + Files 9, skip 9.2
9/7 Indexes 1/2 10
9/12 Indexes 2/2 10
9/15 Sorting 13
9/19 Relational algebra 4.1, 4.2 Pass out HW 1
9/21 Relational calculus 4.3, 4.4
9/26 SQL 1 5
9/28 Relational Ops 1 (unary) 12.1-12.3, 14.1-14.3
10/3 Relational Ops 2 (joins) 14.4-14.6 HW 1 due
10/5 Boolean text search 27.1-27.3.1
10/10 Q-Optimization 1 15 HW 2 passed out 10/8
10/12 Q-Optimization 2 15
10/17 Physical design 20
10/19 ER Model 2 (can skip 2.7)
10/24 Normalization I 19
10/26 Midterm Solutions
10/31 Normalization II 19 HW 2 due
11/2 SQL 2 + Query Rewrite 5 Normalization Lab, 11/1.
HW3 (SQL) passed out
11/7 Intro to transactions 16
11/9 CC 1 17 HW3 due.
11/14 CC 2 17
11/16 CC 3 17 Pass out HW 5
11/21 Recovery 1 18 HW 5 due; Pass out HW 6
11/28 Recovery 2 18
11/30 Data parallelism: relational and websearch 22
12/5 Ranked text search 27.4 HW 6 due
12/7 Advanced topic/summary