CS448: Introduction to Database Systems

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Lectures	TR 9:00 am - 10:15 am, Aug. 21, 2017 – Dec. 09, 2017, LWSN B155
Instructor	Prof. Bharat Bhargava · Email: bbshail@purdue.edu · Office: LWSN 2116F · Office hours: Tuesday 10:30 am - 11:30 am · Phone: 494-6013
PSOs	1. Fri. 01:30 pm - 03:20 pm, LWSN B146 2. Fri. 11:30 am - 01:20 pm, LWSN B146 3. Mon. 01:30 pm - 03:20 pm, LWSN B158 4. Mon. 03:30 pm - 05:20 pm, HAAS 257
Midterm	Wednesday, 10/11/2017, 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm, ME1061
Final	Friday, 12/15/2017, 8:00 am - 10:00 am, ARMS 1010
Q&A	Piazza
TAs	Aman Preet Singh · Email: singh427@purdue.edu · Office Office hours: Tuesdays, 1:30-2:30 PM (or by appointment) in HAAS G50 Spencer Pearson · Email: pearso29@purdue.edu · Office hours: Thursdays, 1:00-2:00 PM (or by appointment) in HAAS G50. Ganapathy Mani · Email: manig@purdue.edu · Office hours: By appointment.

Course Description

This course covers fundamental concepts of database management systems. These concepts include database modeling and design, relational databases, and brief introduction to hierarchical, network, XML models and query languages. Introduction to transaction management will include brief details of ideas and algorithms for concurrency, atomicity, recovery, integrity, security, and privacy. Material on big data, data warehouse, data mining, multimedia, and cloud computing will be covered. Performance and tuning of components of database system and transaction processing will be included.