COP4722 Survey of Database Systems

Professor: Nagarajan Prabakar (naa-ga-raa-jan pra-baa-kar)
Phone: 305-348-2033
E-mail: prabakar@cis.fiu.edu
Office: CASE-382
Office Hours: June 22 - July 31
Mon/Wed/Fri: 7:15pm-8:30pm (online)
or   by appointment

Catalog Description: Design & management of enterprise systems; query optimization, transaction processing; concurrency techniques; web queries; XML interchanges; data warehousing, datamining; OLAP; NOSQL and bigdata. interchange.

Prerequisite: COP-4703 or COP-4710

Textbook: Fundamentals of Database Systems, 7th Edition
                  Elmasri and Navathe
                  Pearson (ISBN: 0-13-397077-9)

Detailed Syllabus (pdf file)

Course Outcomes:

Course Modules:

  1. Foundations of database systems
  2. Query processing and query optimization
  3. Transaction processing
  4. Concurrency control
  5. Internet database and PHP queries
  6. XML database and XQueries
  7. Data mining and data warehouse
  8. Information retrieval and bigdata

Grading:

30% assignments

5% quiz (Friday, June 26th)

30% midterm exam (Friday, July 10th)

30% final exam (Friday, July 31st)

5% class participation (zoom sessions)

Quiz & exams will require the use of Honorlock and/or Lockdown Browser tools.

I will use the following relative grading scheme.

Other Issues:

I expect you to maintain a high level of academic integrity in this course.
Please read FIU's Code of Academic Integrity.
You are allowed to consult other books in solving assignment problems, or to discuss the problems with other students, but you must do the assignments on your own.

For each assignmnet, you must upload the soft copy of the assignment through Canvas before the deadline along with the signed originality declaration before the deadline.

I will grant incomplete grade only in extreme circumstances, such as medical emergencies with proper documentation.

I expect you to join online class regularly and promptly, and to participate in discussions. Feel free to ask questions -- if something is unclear to you, it is probably unclear to others as well.

System Requirement:

PC Windows

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