Advanced Databases

Spring, 2014

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Dr. Mohamed Abdur Rahman
PhD, MIEEE, MACM,
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science,
UMM Al Qura University

email: marahman@uqu.edu.sa

Course Progress Timer 6 Years, 8 months and 27 days

NEWS

  1. April 13, 2014: Quiz 1 solution has been posted in the quizzes section below.
  2. February 03, 2014: Lecture 1 is posted here.
  3. February 03, 2014: First week we will be discussing the fundamentals of database theories to make sure all of you are on the same level and that you are ready to understand the advanced topics
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LECTURE NOTES

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DEADLINES

Project Submission

  • Week15(Sat-Wed): All groups have to arrange a suitable time during this week to show the TA or me a working demo
  • By Week15(Thursday until 12 midnight): All groups have to submit the final soft-copies of report and code by email to me. Also cc your TA.

SCHEDULE

Time and Day

Monday — 12:00-1:50 pm [Section1G]
Tuesday — 8:00-9:50 [Section2G]and 12:00-1:50 [Section1]
Thursday — 2:00-2:50 [Section2G]and 3:00-3:50 [Section1G] and 12:00-12:50 [Section1]

Quizzes

Quiz 3 exam date: April XX (Sunday)-->The quiz will contain ....
Quiz 2: April XX-->The quiz will contain ...
Quiz 1: April 10, 2014--> Solution to Quiz1

Project

1. Project Home Page
2. Project Report Template 3. Code samples of different projects

Midterm

Date: .... , Time: XX:XX to XX:XX. Syllabus:-->

Advanced Databases
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Final Exam June XX, 2014

Syllabus

Advanced Databases Final exam (for slides and other contents go to the lecture page)
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MARKING SCHEME

Project

25%

Final Exam

40%

Class Participation

10%

Quizzes

10%

Midterm

15%

TEXTBOOKS

  1. 1. Database Systems: Models, Languages, Design And Application Programming, By Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant Navathe, 6th Edition, Pearson International Edition
  2. 2. Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management, By Peter Rob and Carlos Coronel, 7th Edition.
Note: The books are available in the library for renting or buying

DATABASE

  1. 1. MySQL (open source)
  2. 2. PostgreSQL (open source)
  3. 3. MS SQL Server / MS Access(Microsoft Corporation)
Note: In the afternoon session, we will be mostly concentrating on implementation of the theory that we go over the morning session.

Copyright - Dr. Mohamed Abdur Rahman; marahman@uqu.edu.sa — +966561061730