ITIS 5160
Applied Databases
Fall 2012
Overview
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Class hour 9:30am – 12:15pm, Friday, Woodward 120
Office hour 1:30 – 2:30pm, Wednesday
Instructor - Dr. Weichao Wang
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email – weichaowang@uncc.edu
Office – Woodward Hall 333C (after the labor day)
Webpage
http://coitweb.uncc.edu/~wwang22/Teaching/2012Fall5160/index.htm
Textbook
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Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke. Database Management
Systems(3rd) McGraw Hill, 2002
Online information, http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~dbbook
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Lecture slides
Solutions to odd-numbered exercises
Minibase software
Topic Description
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Concept design, ER model, relational model,
SQL, normal forms
DB programming and JDBC
Database indexing, physical database design
and tuning
Data warehouse
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Conceptual design, OLAP, data cube
Physical design, indexing & tuning
Advanced database topics, distributed DB,
OODB, web DB, KDD etc.
Course Prerequisite
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Data Structures
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Familiarity with programming with Java or C++ is
assumed
Grading
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Composition
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Class participation
Group project
Midterm
Final
Scale
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Based on curves
5%
40%
25%
30%
Project reports
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Late policy:
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50% score within 24 hours;
After that: 0%
Must be word or pdf files.
Electronic submission accepted
Project
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Develop an information system using Oracle.
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Two components: both OLTP and OLAP oriented
Each group consists of 3-4 students
4-6 hours workload each week is expected
Java or C++ assumed
More information
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Will be provided on the class webpage
Midterm & Final
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One cheat sheet will be allowed
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No discussion
Cumulative
No makeup