Topics Covered and Class Activities

CS 499-D: Advanced Database Concepts


Week  Day  DoW    Date    Ch	Topic				Homework
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10     20  Wed    3/18          Test

9      19  Mon    3/16		Finishing up,
				Reviewing for the Final
				Questionnaire
				Course Evaluation

9      18  Wed    3/11    18    Database Design and Performance

8      17  Mon    3/9           Concurrency Control in Distributed Databases
				Timestamp-Based Concurrency Control

8      16  Wed    3/4     13	 Understanding The Query Optimizer
			  12	 Designing Indexes for Performamnce

7      15  Mon    3/2     12    Designing Indexes for Performamnce 
			  11	Understanding SQL Server
				Storage Structures

7      14  Wed    2/25    11    Understanding SQL Server
				Storage Structures

6      13  Mon    2/23    11    Understanding SQL Server
				Storage Structures
			  10	Defining Performance Expectations

6      12  Wed    2/18          Discussion

5      11  Mon    2/16    10    Defining Performance Expectations

5      10  Wed    2/11          Test1


4      9   Mon    2/9      9	Transaction Management

4      8   Wed    2/4      8    Triggers
				Stored Procedures

4      7   Mon    2/2      7    T-SQL Programming
                           8    Triggers

3      6   Wed    1/28          No class

3      5   Mon    1/26     7    Transact-SQL Programming 	Read Chapter 7
				Constructs			and run the 
								Queries

2      4   Wed    1/21     6    Creating and Altering           Read Chapter 6
				Database Objects		Run the queries 
                                                                in the handout

2      3   Wed    1/14     4    Introduction to Transact-SQL	Run the queries 
			   5    Transact-SQL Datatypes		in the handout
								Read Chapter 5                         

1      2   Mon    1/12     4    Introduction to Transact-SQL	Run the queries 
								in the handout
								Read Chapter 4

1      1   Wed    1/7           Class Introduction
				Syllabus
			   

Last update March 10, 1998.