COP 4710 - Fall 2010 - LECTURE NOTES PAGE


CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION
  • Introduction to Database Systems( pdf version )


  • CHAPTER 2 - CONCEPTUAL DATA MODELING
  • Introduction to Data Modeling ( pdf version )
  • ERD Notational Differences ( pdf version )
  • In-class Exercises ( pdf version )


  • CHAPTER 3 - THE RELATIONAL DATA MODEL
  • The Relational Data Model ( pdf version )
  • In-class Exercises ( pdf version )


  • CHAPTER 4 - RELATIONAL ALGEBRA AND RELATIONAL CALCULUS
  • Relational Query Languages - Part I - Relational Algebra ( pdf version )
  • Relational Query Languages - Part II - More Relational Algebra and Tuple Calculus ( pdf version )
  • In-class Exercises - Part I ( pdf version )
  • In-class Exercises - Part II ( pdf version )


  • CHAPTER 5 - INTRODUCTION TO SQL AND MySQL
  • Introduction to MySQL ( .pdf version ) Bike database script from MySQL notes
  • Introduction to SQL ( pdf version )


  • CHAPTER 19 - FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCIES AND NORMALIZATION
  • Introduction to Functional Dependencies ( pdf version )


  • DATA STORAGE AND FILE SYSTEMS
  • Storage ( pdf version )
  • Indexing & Hashing ( pdf version )


  • CHAPTER 12 - QUERY PROCESSING
  • Query Processing ( pdf version )


  • CHAPTER 16 & CHAPTER 17 - TRANSACTION PROCESSING
  • Transaction Processing ( pdf version )


  • CHAPTER 22 - PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED DATABASES
  • Distributed Database Systems ( pdf version )


  • CHAPTER 25 - DATA WAREHOUSING
  • Introduction to Data Warehousing ( pdf version )



  • EXAM #1 - Thursday September 30th
  • Exam #1 Review Notes ( .pdf version )
  • A Few Practice Problems ( pdf version )
  • SOLUTIONS to the Practice Problems ( pdf version )
  • Exam #1 KEY ( pdf version )

  • EXAM #2 - Thursday November 18th
  • Exam #2 Review Notes ( .pdf version )
  • A Few More Practice Problems ( pdf version )
  • SOLUTIONS to the Practice Problems ( pdf version )
  • Exam #2 KEY ( pdf version )

  • FINAL EXAM - Tuesday December 7th - Starts at 4:00 PM
  • Final Exam Review Notes ( pdf version )
  • Final Exam Practice Problems ( pdf version )
  • Solutions to Final Exam Practice Problems ( pdf version )


  • Last updated: December 2, 2010

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