343
INTRODUCTION TO DATABASES
Summer 2005
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/db/courses/343/
or
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ramona/teaching/csc343/s05/
General
Class meets on Thursdays, 6–8pm
Room: BA 1130
Tutorials: Thursdays, 8–9pm
Rooms: TBA
Instructor
Ramona Truta
ramona@cdf.toronto.edu
Office: BA 3222
Office hours: Thursdays 4–6pm,
and by appointment.
Requirements
3 Tests (60%)
3 Homeworks (40%)
A minimum average of 50 % on
the tests (combined) is required to
pass this course.
Text
Lecture notes will be posted online.
No required text.
Strongly-recommended texts:
Database Systems: The
Complete Book by H.
Garcia-Molina, J. Ullman, and J. Widom.
Prentice Hall, 2002.
Database Systems Concepts by A. Silberschatz,
H. F. Korth, and S.
Sudarshan McGraw Hill,
2002.
Recommended preparation
Proficiency in C.
Topics
Concepts, approaches, and techniques in database management systems (DBMS): relational databases, querying and updating a database, query language SQL, database constraints and design, elements
of database technology.
Schedule
Assignments:
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
Due: June 13
Due: July 11
Due: August 2
(10%)
(15%)
(15%)
Assignment 2 is done on db2, available on CDF machines.
Tests:
Test 1
Test 2
Final in-class test
June 23
July 21
August 11
room TBA
room TBA
room TBA
(15%)
(20%)
(25%)
Homeworks
You can work in groups of two people for your homeworks; partners from the other section are not allowed. All homeworks must be
typed. Handwritten assignments will not be marked. The due dates
for all homeworks will be as listed above, at 5pm. By that time, your
homeworks must be submitted electronically; you have to use one of
the following accepted formats: plain ASCII file, Postscript, or PDF.
Late Homeworks
Penalties for late homeworks: 20% for each day (5:01pm counts as
one day late, and no more than 2 penalty days). If your assignment
is late you have to submit it electronically to your TA.
Remarking requests
For all the assignments, and all the tests: after your assignments/tests
are marked, you have one week to submit written remarking requests.
Newsgroup ut.cdf.csc343h
For this term, the newsgroup is for students only, since two different
sections of CSC343 share it. All important announcements will be
made on the web page instead. There will be an announcement link;
please check it at least twice a week.
Email
Please follow these rules:
• The Subject line must contain “csc343”.
• Shorter messages get faster responses.
• If you send me a program and ask “what is wrong with it?”, do
not expect a reply.
• No attachments, no HTML, no MIME encoding, no MS Word
and no hotmail! See http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
on why and how not to use HTML in email messages, and other
email etiquette rules.