Course Plan

The course will contain:

Lectures:

Date Subject Book sections ("Database Systems: The Complete Book", first edition) Book sections ("Database Systems: The Complete Book", second edition)
January 19 Introduction 1 1
January 21 Relational model, E-R diagrams 3.1, 3.6.1-2, 2, 3.2 2.2, 3.3.1-2, 4.1-6
January 22 E-R diagrams cont., Functional dependencies 2, 3.2-5 4.1-6, 3.1-2
February 2 Normalization, BCNF, Multivalued dependencies, 3NF, 4 NF 3.6.3-, 3.7 3.3.3-4, 3.4.1, 3.5.1, 3.6
February 5 SQL DDL, Queries, Relational Algebra (by Jonas Almström Duregård) 6.5-6, 7.1-3, 5.1-2, 6.1.1-2, 6.2.1 6.5, 2.3, 7.1-3, 2.4, 6.1.1-2, 6.2.1
February 9 SQL queries and Relational Algebra cont. 5.2.9-, 6.1.3 -6, 6.2.2-4, 6.3.1-7, 6.7.1-2 2.4.11-, 6.1.3-7, 6.2.2-4, 6.3.1-7, 8.1
February 12 SQL queries and Relational Algebra cont. rest of 5 & 6 except 6.7 6.1.8, 6.2.5, 6.3.8, 6.4, 5.1, 5.2, 2.5
February 16 SQL DDL, Assertions, Triggers 6.7, 7.1.5, 7.4- 8.1, 8.2, 7.1.2, 7.4-7.5
February 19 SQL/PSM, Embedded SQL, JDBC 8.1-5 9.2-6
February 23 Transactions, Authorization, Indexes 8.6-7; 6.6.5-6,13.1-2 6.6, 10.1, 18.1; 8.3-4, 14.1
March 2 XML 4.6-7 11.1-2
March 2 Guest lecture by Marcus Better from Spotify
March 5 Revision: going through old exams    

Last Modified: 2015-01-20 by Aarne Ranta