Database Managment System

1. Database Managment System INTRODUCTION Introduction

2. Instructors • Dr. Aisha Zulal Shevkli (for lecture) • Office: B15- ground floor • Email: asevkli@ksu.edu.sa • Note: when you email us please insert [IT331] in the subject line and include your REAL name, otherwise we will not answer your email. • T.A. Abeer Al-Dayel (for DBA-lab) • Office : Room 813  – 3rd Floor - Building 9 • Email:aabeer@ksu.edu.sa • T.A. Aseel Al-Turki (Tutorial) • Email:  aseel.alturki@gmail.com Introduction

3. Textbooks • Primary: • Thomas Connolly and Carolyn Begg, Database Systems, Addison Wesley, 5thedition – 2010. • Supplementary: • Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant B. Navathe, Fundamentals of Database Systems, Addison Wesley, 6th edition 2010. Introduction

4. Course Content Introduction

5. Laboratory Content Introduction

6. Course Learning Outcomes • Comprehend, apply and evaluate the different techniques used in concurrency control and recovery and find advantages and disadvantages of each. Also, propose improvements to them. • Comprehend and apply query processing methodologies • Analyze and design a suitable database fragmentation based on a given a set of demands and constraints and decide the best way of executing queries on them. • Learn and apply database administration techniques, taking Oracle as an example • Have knowledge of emerging database technologies such as Object-Oriented Databases, Object-Relational Databases, Data Warehouse and Data Mining techniques, Mobile Database, XML Introduction

7. Grading Introduction

8. Exam Dates • quiz #1 : Sunday 16-10-2011 •  mid #1 : Sunday 23-10-2011 • quiz #2 : Sunday 4-12-2011 • mid #2 : Sunday 11-12-2011 Introduction

9. Course Website http://331it.wordpress.com/ Introduction