Announcements from the Instructor

Csci 5708, Spring 2005.

• February 16th, 2005:
  • A seminar on Power Management of Enterprise Storage Systems may of interest to students interested in hardware issues (e.g. disk drives) related to databases. Kindly attend.
• January 18th, 2005:
  • Team formation: Oracle account will be shared by teams of two. Homeworks will also be submitted in groups of two.
  • The pre-requisite courses include current Csci 5707 or Csci 4707 (Database I). Relevant pre-requisite topics include conceptual data model (e.g. entity relationship), relational data model, normal forms (1-3), relational algebra, basic SQL (select, project, join, aggregate query) and integrity constraints.