Thur. 1 - 4,
Friday 12 - 1, or by appointment. If the suite door is locked, then call
my extension (last 4 digits) using the phone in the hallway.
Teaching
Assistant
Dawood Moazzem, email:
moazzemd3722@uhcl.edu Office Hours: Monday 5 to 10,
Wednesday 1 to 6, and Thursday 12 to 4
WebCT link
Required
Textbook
Elmasri, R., Navathe, S., Fundamentals of Database
Systems Benjamin Cummings, Fifth Edition, 2006.
Reference
Materials
Proc. of SIGMOD Conf: ACM-Special Int Grp on Mgmt. of
Data (1974-) Proc. of the Very Large DB(VLDB) Conf. (Morgan Kaufmann)
(1975-) Proc. of IEEE Data Engineering Conf.(1984-) TODS: ACM
Transactions on Database Systems.(1976-) IEEE /KDE: IEEE Trans. on
Knowledge and Data Engineering (1990-) TOIS: ACM Transactions on Office
Information Systems. Website for database publications by author
and topics: http://dblp.uni-trier.de/
maintained by Dr. M. Lay at Univ of Trier, Germany ORACLE
Documentation
This course uncovers a spectrum of
topics involved with current approaches to modeling and design of
databases and the design of DBMSs to manage databases. The first half of
the course focuses on databases from the perspective of a database
programmer. The second half of the course focuses on databases from the
perspective of a database administrator. The traditional graduate student load is 3 courses. Be prepared
to commit 15 to 20 hours per week to this course!
Course Goals
Upon completion of the course,
students are expected to be able to: design and develop database
applications proficiently and understand the fundamental structure of
various database systems.
Prerequisites
The prerequisites for this course are CSCI4333 (or an undergraduate
database course) and CSCI3532 (or some advanced data structures course). If you do not meet the
prerequisites, then you need todrop this
course!
Methodology
Web-based supplemented with lecture and interactive problem
solving.
·Submit: Final questions by Wednesday, December 9th, 7
PM.
·Study!
Dec 10 –Final Exam:
Closed
Book, Closed Notes, Starts at 7 PM in Delta 241
Other Policies
Homework, Projects, Research Paper
Homework and projects are due exactly at the
prescribed time (usually the beginning of class). As soon as a homework
or project is collected, then all others are considered 1 day late (even
if it only 3 minutes). In the event you might be running late, you might
want to email the assignment. Also, when preparing your assignment, be
mindful of possible backlogs at the printer, jammed printer, printer out
of toner, etc.
Late
homework/projects are accepted with a penalty of 10% deduction per
24-hour period after the due date. No late project will be
accepted one week after the due date. The last homework/project cannot
be late.
There will be no extra-credit homework or projects in this
course.
All homework and projects must be typed not hand-written.
A cover page is expected for all homework and
projects. A sample of this cover page is included in the first
assignment.
VERY
IMPORTANT! In certain classes
students are encouraged to work in groups. For this class you are
expected to work on all homework and projects individually. Students may not discuss, use, email,
show, give, buy, sell, borrow, trade, steal, download from the Internet,
etc. in whole or part, any of the homework or projects in any manner not prescribed by the
instructor. This condition applies even after you complete
this course! Penalty for cheating will be extremely severe and may result
in an F for this course.
Handing in an assignment for another student is considered
cheating.Penalty for
cheating will be extremely
severe and may result in an F for this course.
VERY
IMPORTANT! Failing
to report to the instructor any incident in which a student witnesses an
alleged violation of the Academic Honesty Code is considered a violation
of the academic honesty code. Please see me to discuss any
incidents.
VERY
IMPORTANT! Purchasing,
or otherwise acquiring and submitting as one's own work any research
paper or any other writing assignment prepared by others constitutes
cheating. Penalty for cheating
will be extremely severe and
may result in an F for this course.
Standard academic honesty procedure will be followed. See the
following link
for additional information.
Tests, Quizzes
There are no make-up tests except in verified medical
emergencies and with immediate
notification. Rescheduling a final exam in order to catch
a plane flight is unacceptable. Make up exams are harder, and
different, than original exams.
There are no make-up quizzes. Allow plenty of additional time in
the event that webCT crashes.
You are responsible for all the readings assigned
throughout the semester.
Students are to work on test and quizzes individually.Students may not
discuss, show, give, sell, borrow, trade, share, etc. their
tests or quizzes. Penalty on cheating will be extremely severe. Standard
academic honesty procedure will be followed.
VERY
IMPORTANT! Providing
answers for any assigned work or examination when not specifically
authorized by the instructor to do so. Or, informing any person or
persons of the contents of any examination prior to the time the
examination is given is considered cheating. Penalty for cheating will be extremely severe and may result
in an F for this course.
VERY
IMPORTANT! Failing
to report to the instructor any incident in which a student witnesses an
alleged violation of the Academic Honesty Code is considered a violation
of the academic honesty code. Please see me to discuss any
incidents.
Miscellaneous
Any person with a disability who requires a special
accommodation should inform me and contact the Disability services
office or call 281 283 2627 as soon as possible.
Incomplete grades or administrative withdrawals occur
only under extremely rare situations.
The
ringing, beeping, buzzing of cell phones, watches, and/or pagers during
class time is extremely rude and
disruptive to your fellow students and to the class flow. Please
turn off all cell phones, watches, and pagers prior to the start of
class.
As
a web-based class, there is no formal attendance policy. However, it is
my experience that those students who do attend class on a regular basis
do better on tests than those that don't.
I am willing to provide letters of
recommendation/references only if you have attained an 'A' in one of my
classes, or two 'A-' in two of my classes.
I highly recommend that you seek out your advisor
and complete you Candidate Plan of Study (CPS) as soon as possible. I am
normally not available for advising during the summer months.
Pay
very careful attention to your email correspondence. It reflects on your
communication skills. Below is a compilation of email errors I have
received during the past year.
dear sir.
wen r u gonna grad the homework, bcoz i
have a doubt about the third problem
