This schedule is tentative and subject to change. All readings are in Fundamentals of Database Systems, Seventh Edition.
| Week | Date | Topic |
Reading |
| 1 | August 19 | Syllabus review, course requirements, etc. | Ch. 1 |
| August 21 | Database Concepts | Ch. 2 | |
| 2 | August 26 | The Entity-Relationship (ER) Model | Ch. 3 |
| August 28 | The Entity-Relationship model | Ch. 3 | |
| 3 | September 2 |
Labor Day holiday |
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| September 4 | Basic SQL | Ch. 6 | |
| 4 | September 9 | The Enhanced Entity-Relationship Model | Ch. 4 |
| September 11 | The Enhanced Entity-Relationship Model | Ch. 4 | |
| 5 | September 16 |
More SQL |
Ch. 7 |
| September 18 | The Relational Model and Relational Database Constraints | Ch. 5 | |
| 6 | September 23 | The Relational Model and Relational Database Constraints | Ch. 5 |
| September 25 | Relational database design by ER to EER mapping | Ch. 9 | |
| 7 | September 30 | Relational database design by ER to EER mapping | Ch. 9 |
| October 2 | Midterm Review | ||
| 8 | October 7 |
Exam 1 on Chapters 1-5, 7, and 9 |
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| October 9 |
Relational Algebra and Calculus |
Ch. 8 | |
| 9 | October 14 |
Relational Algebra and Calculus |
Ch. 8 |
| October 16 | File Structures | Ch. 16 | |
| 10 | October 21 | File Structures / Index Structures | Ch. 16, 17 |
| October 23 | Index Structures | Ch. 17 | |
| 11 | October 28 | Functional Dependency and Normalization | Ch. 14 |
| October 30 | Functional Dependency and Normalization | Ch. 14 | |
| 12 | November 4 | Design Algorithms & Further Dependencies | Ch. 15 |
| November 6 | Design Algorithms & Further Dependencies | Ch. 15 | |
| 13 | November 11 | Query Processing & Optimization | Ch. 18 |
| November 13 | Query Processing & Optimization | Ch. 19 | |
| 14 | November 18 | Transaction Processing | |
| November 20 | Concurrency Control | ||
| 15 | November 25 | Fall Break for Thanksgiving | Ch. 20 |
| November 27 | Fall Break for Thanksgiving | Ch. 21 | |
| 16 | December 2 | Concurrency Control | |
| December 4 | Exam Review | ||
| December 9 | Exam 2 at 8:30 to 9:45 in the classroom. Covers Chapters 8, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and the material on transactions and concurrency. |