DM505, Spring 2007, 4th Quarter - Weekly Note 1

Lecture April 2

Introduction to course. Introduction to Database Management Systems. The Relational Model.

Reading

Kifer, Bernstein, and Lewis: Chapters 1-2 and Sections 3.1-2. Slides: pdf, pdf.

Remarks

Our introduction slides do not discuss exactly the same subjects as Chapter 1.

Lecture April 11 (expected contents)

More on Relational Model and its formulation in SQL. Start on Entity-Relationship Model.

Reading

Kifer, Bernstein, and Lewis: Rest of Chapter 3, Sections 4.1-3.

Exercises April 12

Exercises 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9 in Kifer, Bernstein, and Lewis. (Note: for some of these exercises, the background material will be covered a little late, namely at the April 11 lecture.)