Course info

• Syllabus,
• schedule
• Foils

• Project
• Homeworks
• Exams

**** NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS ****

• (12/11/00) Guidelines for final exam, and older, sample exam.
• make sure you have the latest foils:
• (11/13/00): Foils for OR DBMS
• (10/15/00) NEW notes for hashing
• (10/12/00) NEW notes for indexing and B-trees
• also, ascii version of B-tree algorithms

• (11/30/00) Schedules for demos .
• (11/5/00): Project demos: final grading scheme and FAQs (distributed in hard copy in class - replaces the 'tentative', earlier version)

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Course information

• Instructor: Christos Faloutsos, mail: christos@cs.cmu.edu

office: Wean Hall 7127, ph (412)-268.1457
office hours: Tu 11-12, We 4-5, at WeH7127
• Teaching assistants and office hours (all in WeH 3108 or 3130)
• Shimin Chen chensm+@cs  ; Tu 4:30-5:30, Fr 11-12


• Jane Wang jianqun@andrew ; Mo 4:30-5:30, Fr 3-4
• Sanjay Gopinatha Rao sanjay@cs ; Mo 3-4 Thu 4:30-5:30
• Class meets: Tu-Th 3-4:20, HH B131
• URL for this very web page: www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/dbms.F00

Please check it often!

Syllabus

Schedule

Lecture foils 

Project

• Description ( ps and html ) 
• some FAQs for phase-I 
• NEW FAQs for phase-I 
• Phase-2 ER diagram (contact the instructor/TAs, if yours significantly deviates from the posted on)
• Phase 3 grading scheme (to be handed out as hard copy in the 11/7 lecture)

Homeworks

• homework 1
• book on MS Access is on reserve in the library: Running Microsoft Access 2000, by John L. Viescas, Microsoft Press;  ISBN: 1572319348
• info on Oracle and sample JAVA+SQL programs:: http://heinz2.library.cmu.edu:8100
• Solutions 
• Homework 2 (needs the btree tar file ). The solutions 

Exams

•  Study guide for midterm
• older midterm and solutions
• current midterm and solutions
• (12/11/00)Guidelines for final exam and older final exam (visible ONLY from CMU machines)

Newsgroups

• academic.cs.15-415.discuss or cyrus.academic.cs.15-415.discuss: Feel free to post course-related messages here.
• academic.cs.15-415.announce or cyrus.academic.cs.15-415.announce: Low traffic news group, for announcements by the instructor. Please do not post here

Miscellaneous DB resources

• ACM SIGMOD home page (wealth of info: publications, vendors, free db products ...)
• Vendors: Oracle, Sybase, IBM - DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix