200 000 000 200 000 000 13 000 000 year Both owned by Larry Ellison CEO of Oracle It pays to know databases Course CMSC 424 Database design Instructor Mihai Pop Times TuTh 11 30 12 15 Location CSIC 1121 Textbook Database systems concepts Silberschatz Korth Sudarshan McGraw Hill ISBN 978 0 07 295886 7 Sailboats and databases seem to go hand in hand What you will learn Models for data representation Entity relationship relational SQL structured query language language for interacting with databases Schema normalization how to represent data efficiently Data storage how databases store data on a disk Query processing and optimization how a database decides how to most efficiently answer a query Transactions concurrency and recovery how databases deal with multiple users and with failures Parallel distributed databases Databases on the web Workload Exams 2 midterms 1 final Projects 1 group programming project build a database that does something cool TBA Homeworks 4 homeworks throughout the semester some include SQL programming Grading homeworks 10 midterms 25 final 25 project 40 Attendance and academic honesty policies follow university guidelines absences must be justified in writing e g doctor s note no excuses will be accepted for cheating Why go through all this Database administrators are paid well Databases are everywhere i e lots of job opportunities E g Google at the doctor s office payroll systems on Wall Street government e g CIA scientific data Database research offers many exciting opportunities Internet technologies handling huge amounts of data etc
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