CS430 Database Systems Fall 2009

Instructor : Wen-Chi Hou

Office : Faner 2134

Phone : 453-6040

hou at cs.siu.edu

Office hours : 9:00 –11:00, M, W, F

TA: Feng Yu

Faner 3129

453-6036

fyu at cs.siu.edu

10:00-12:00, T, R


Text Book :

“A First Course in Database Systems”, 3rd. Ed., J. Ullman, J. Widom, Prentice Hall, 2008.


Prerequisite : CS 330 with a grade of C or better.


Grading :

Homework : 30 – 40%; no late submissions will be accepted.

Three one-hour tests : 60 –70%


Course Outline :

  1. Introduction to Databases

  2. Database Modeling

    1. Entity-Relationship diagram

    2. Object-Oriented model

    3. Relational model

  3. The Relational Model

  4. Relational Algebra

  5. Database Programming

  6. Advanced Topics