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CSC715
Database Theory
Syllabus (subject to revision)
Section 9686
Spring 2013
Professor Emile Chungtien Chi
CSC715 will be a hybrid course. This means that 40% of the course will
take place in the classroom (f2f)
and 60% online. You are expected to attend all f2f classes and also spend at
least 4 hours per week online
learning and studying the material presented there. All of the lecture material
will be presented online. The f2f
classes will serve mostly to clarify the more difficult concepts presented in
the lectures and to post and answer
questions on the lectures. We will also solve problems together in the f2f
classes.
The CSC715 class web site is Professor Chi's CSI Course web
We will also use Blackboard 9.1, but only for discussions and
announcements.
f2f classes are scheduled from 6:30 to 8:10 in 1N004 on Wednesday
Dates for f2f classes are January 30; Feb 6,13,20; March 6,13; April 10,24;
May 1,15
Dates for online classes are 24/7 – i.e. whenever you want to work on the
course.
Course Tools
Required Textbooks:
 First Course in Database Sytems by Ullman & Widom, ISBN-10:
013600637X | ISBN-13: 978-0136006374 | Edition: 3
Pearson 2008, List price $144.20 Available from Amazon for
$106.54 to $84.75.
Look at http://www.bestwebbuys.com for possible better prices
on all textbooks
 A Guide to MySQL by Philip J. Pratt & Mary Z. Last, Course
Technology, 2006, ISBN # 978-1-4188-3635-1
List price $99.95 eBook $34.49 Available from Amazon for
$75.81 to $39.75.
Recommended Books – supposedly available in the CSI Library:
 Database System Concepts by Silberschatz, Korth & Sudarshan;
Fifth Edition, McGraw Hill, 2005, ISBN 0-07-295886-3
 PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling & Mary Z.
Laura Thomson, Addison Wesley, 2009, ISBN # 978-0-672329166-6
 Concepts of Database Management, by Philip J. Pratt & Joseph J.
Adamski, 6th Edition, Course Technology, 2008, ISBN-10:
1423901479
Software:
MySQL. This open source software is free at
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
You need to download the MySQL Community Server and the
MySQL Workbench. Many versions are available at this site. Use
whichever one you are able to install on your own computer. Setup of
MySQL is not difficult and will be demonstrated at the first f2f class. My
instructions for the Windows setup are available on the course web site.
Course Requirements
 Programs
30% Several graded programming
assignments. May be done in groups of at most 2 students
 1st exam in class
20% Will test both theory and programming
skills. Individual
 2nd exam in class
30% Will test both theory and programming
skills. Individual
 Project
20% One larger programming assignment of
your own choice. Individual
Course Outline
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Database management systems
The Entity-Relationship model of data
Programming in SQL using open source MySQL software
The relational model of data & relational database management
systems
 Theory of normal forms of relations & database design
 Recovery, Concurrency & Security of databases (optional if time
permits)
 Brief introductions to Object Oriented Databases and XML
Databases (optional if time permits)