ITIS 5160: Applied Databases

Spring 2010

 

Mirsad Hadzikadic

 

Contact Information:

Web page:         http://www.sis.uncc.edu/~mirsad

Email:                  mirsad at uncc.edu

Office:                 Woodward Hall 343A

Office phone:      704-687-8643

Office Hours:       Mondays 3:30-6:30pm

 

TA:                      Ling Guo (lguo2 at uncc.edu)
 Office:                Woodward Hall 300
Office Hours:      Tuesdays 2:30-5:30pm

 

Course Description:

Identification of business database needs; requirements specification; relational database model; SQL; E-R modeling; database design, implementation, and verification; distributed databases; databases replication; object-oriented databases; data warehouses; OLAP; data mining; security of databases; vendor selection; DBMS product comparison; database project management; tools for database development, integration, and transaction control.  The schedule of topics is provided here.

 

Tetxbook:

Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke: ÒDatabase Management Systems,Ó 3rd Edition, McGraw Hill, June 2003, ISBN: 0072465638.  The online material, including the pdf version of the class notes, is provided here.

 

Course Requirements and Grading Policy:

Quiz:                            10%

Project:                        40%

Midterm Exam:            20%

Final Exam:                 30% 

 

Academic Integrity:

All students are expected to adhere to the UNC Charlotte Code of Student Academic Integrity as specified in the current Catalog.  Among other things, this code forbids cheating, fabrication or falsification of information, multiple submission of academic work, plagiarism, abuse of academic materials, and complicity in academic dishonesty.

 

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