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COMP-421: Database Systems

This course covers database systems and includes paper assignments and project assignments using DB2. The marking scheme includes assignments, a midterm, and a final exam.

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COMP-421: Database Systems

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  1. COMP-421: Database Systems Khaled Jababo jababo@cs.mcgill.ca

  2. Names and Numbers • Class: • Monday, Wednesday, Friday 13:35-14:25 • Lecturer: • Khaled Jababo, McConnell Eng. Bldg. Room TBD • jababo@cs.mcgill.ca • Office Hours: • By Appointment

  3. Marking Scheme • Marking Scheme: • Paper Ass. 20%, • Project Ass. 20%, • Midterm 10%, • Final 50% • Midterm: in class or evening • Final: 3hr final covers all

  4. Marking Scheme • Written (Paper) Assignments: • Solving concrete problems, from easy to difficult • Around one assignment every second week, four in total • Usually to be done within one or two weeks. • Late turn-in: for each day late 10% of the maximal achievable points will be subtracted from the achieved points. • Everybody has to do them by herself/himself

  5. Marking Scheme • Project Assignments: • Designing and building a database, working with the database, and writing applications using the database • Practical work with DB2 • 4 project assignments (stepwise project development) • To be done in a given time period • Three people will build a team

  6. Marking Scheme McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see http://www.mcgill.ca/integrity for more information).

  7. www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jababo

  8. Literature • Webpage: • http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jababo • Books: • Course Book: • Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke: Database Management Systems; McGraw Hill, 3rd Edition • Other Recommendations: • Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman and Jennifer Widom: Database Systems: The Complete Book, 2002. • Silberschatz, Korth, Sudarshan: Database System Concepts, McGraw Hill, 5th Edition, 2006

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