Schedule for Csci 8701, Fall 2000

WEEK DATE TOPICS Textbook, Supplement DUE
1 9/7-8 Overview T9.2, T9.3
2 9/11-15 Example Databases S1, T8.1, T8.3 HW 0
3 9/18-22 Data Models S2, T1.1, T1.2 HW 1
4 9/25-29 Query Languages S3, T6.1, T6.6 HW 2
5 10/2-6 Storage Systems S4, T2.1, T2.4 HW 3
6 10/9-13 Transactions: Recovery T3.5
7 10/16-20 Transactions: CC S4.3.1, T3.3, T3.4
8 10/23-27 MQ Exam.
9 10/30-11/3 Query Processing S5.1-4, T2.6
10 11/6-10 Distributed Databases S5.6, T4.1, T4.2 HW 4
11 11/13-17 Parallel Databases S5.5, T5.1
12 11/20-22 Data Warehouse S8.4, T7.2, T7.1 HW 5
13 11/27-12/1 Data Mining S7, T7.4
14 12/4-8 Trends tbd HW 6
15 12/11-15 Conclusions T9.2, T9.3 Project Presentations
16 12/17-23 Finals (M 12/18 4-6pm)
Numbers starting with S refer tothe chapters in the supplementary book.

Numbers starting with T refer to textbook section and the rank of paper within each section not couting the overview. The first author and title of these papers are listed at the end of this page. For example paper T9.2 refers to second paper in section 9, i.e. A. Silberschatz, M. Stonebraker, J. Ullman, Database Systems: Achievement and Opportunities.

List of Papers from Textbook

1. T1.1 E. F. Codd A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks
2. T1.2 M. M. Astrahan, et al. System R: Relational Approach to Database Management
3. T2.1 M. Stonebraker Operating System Support for Database Management
4. T2.4 H. T. Chou et al. An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems
5. T2.6 P. G. Selinger et al. Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System
6. T3.3 R. Agrawal et al. Concurrency Control Performance Modeling: ALternatives and Implications
7. T3.4 P. L. Lehman et al. Efficient Locking for Concurrent Operations on B-Trees
8. T3.5 T. Haerder et al. Principles of Transaction Oriented Database Recovery
9. T4.1 R. Williams et al. R*: An OVerview of the Architecture
10. T4.2 G. M. Mackert et al. R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries
11. T5.1 D. J. WeWitt et al. Parallel Database Systems: The Future of High Performance Database Systems
12. T6.1 C. Lamb et al. The ObjectStore Database System
13. T6.6 M. Stonebraker et al. The POSTGRES Next Generation Database Management System
14. T7.1 P. O. Neil et al. Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes
15. T7.2 J. Gray et al. Data Cube: A Relational Aggregation Operator Generalizing Group-By
16. T7.4 R. Agrawal et al. Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules
17. T8.1 Anon et al. A Measure of Transaction Processing Power
18. T8.3 M. Stonebraker et al. The Sequoia 2000 Storage Benchmark
19. T9.2 A. Silberschatz et al. Database Systems: Achievement and Opportunities
20. T9.3 A. Silberschatz et al. Strategic Directions in Database Systems: Breaking Out of the Box

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