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

What's new?

• Our first class is Monday, March 31 at 1:00, MGH 295.
• Here is the syllabus — I will bring copies to the first class
• The class mailing list: info445a_sp08@u.washington.edu (Archive)

• To prepare for our first class, please:

  1. Read this paper:

     Dean, J. and Ghemawat, S. 2008. MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters. Commun. ACM 51, 1 (Jan. 2008), 107-113. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1327452.1327492

  2. Bring a 1-page, rough description of a project that you would like to complete during the quarter and be prepared to discuss your project. Do not worry if you don't have a project idea in mind -- I will bring a couple of 1-page descriptions of projects that you might use or adapt.

  3. Be sure that you have this book and that you are comfortable with the material in chapters 1-6. You should also be familiar with the material in chapters 9-13.

     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]

Assignments

Presentation

A1

A2

A3

A4

A5

A6

Project

Papers

• Beyer et al.,2006

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