1. ITIS 5160 Applied Databases Fall 2012

2. Overview Class hour 9:30am – 12:15pm, Friday, Woodward 120 Office hour 1:30 – 2:30pm, Wednesday Instructor - Dr. Weichao Wang email – weichaowang@uncc.edu Office – Woodward Hall 333C (after the labor day) Webpage http://coitweb.uncc.edu/~wwang22/Teaching/2012Fall- 5160/index.htmhttp://coitweb.uncc.edu/~wwang22/Teaching/2012Fall- 5160/index.htm Textbook Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke. Database Management Systems(3rd) McGraw Hill, 2002 Online information, http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~dbbookhttp://www.cs.wisc.edu/~dbbook Lecture slides Solutions to odd-numbered exercises Minibase software

3. Topic Description Concept design, ER model, relational model, SQL, normal forms DB programming and JDBC Database indexing, physical database design and tuning Data warehouse Conceptual design, OLAP, data cube Physical design, indexing & tuning Advanced database topics, distributed DB, OODB, web DB, KDD etc.

4. Course Prerequisite Data Structures Familiarity with programming with Java or C++ is assumed

5. Grading Composition Class participation5% Group project40% Midterm25% Final30% Scale Based on curves

6. Project reports Late policy: 50% score within 24 hours; After that: 0% Must be word or pdf files. Electronic submission accepted

7. Project Develop an information system using Oracle. Two components: both OLTP and OLAP oriented Each group consists of 3-4 students 4-6 hours workload each week is expected Java or C++ assumed More information Will be provided on the class webpage

8. Midterm & Final One cheat sheet will be allowed No discussion Cumulative No makeup