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INFO-445: Advanced Database Design, Management, and Maintenance

What's new?

• Our first class is Wednesday, September 30 at 11:00, MGH 430.
• Here is the syllabus — I will bring copies to the first class
• The class mailing list: info445a_au09@u.washington.edu (Archive)

• To prepare for our first class, please:

  1. Read this paper:

     Agrawal, R. et al. (2009). The Claremont report on database research. Communications of the ACM, 51, 1 (June 2009), 56-65. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1516046.1516062

  2. Think a little about what you would like to accomplish in INFO-445

  3. Be sure that you have this book and that you are comfortable with the material in chapters 1-6.

     Connolly, T. M. & Begg, C. E. (2005). Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation, and Management (4th Edition) New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing. [ISBN: 0321210255]

Miscellaneous

• UML parts [Adobe Illustrater document]
• Code used in walkthrough tutorial (Oct 28/2009)

Assignments

• All course work will be submitted into this Drop Box.
• Grades can be found in this Grade Book.
• The assignment handouts:
  A1
  A2
  A3 | ER model | device.txt | facility.txt | worklog.txt
  A4
  A5
  A6

  Special topic presentation

  Project

Papers

• Beyer et al.,2006
• MapReduce Paper

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