COSC 3480News and Activities

Spring 2006

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COSC 3480 Tentative Schedule

Exam1: Tu., Feb. 28, 2006Exam2: Th., April 6, 2006Final Exam: ??, May ??, 2006 (see

catalogue)Lab starts on Tu., January 31, 2006

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News and General Information

Reading the textbook in the first week of February 2006Read Chapter 1 of the textbook (covers

introductory material we discussed in January)Read section 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 (how define

relations, constraints,… useful for the lab)Read sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and Section 4.2 (this is

what will be covered this week)

Access http://www2.cs.uh.edu/~ceick/3480.html

regularly

Announcements and Discussion Huiyuan (“Cindy”) Ma will be teaching the COSC 3480 Lab

The COSC 3480 starts on Th., January 26, 2006 at 8:30a in 376 PGH

The lab is subdivided into lab exercises and lab projects Lab exercises you perform during the lab time; the are a

preparation for the lab projects, and have to be submitted to the lab instructor, usually at the end of the lab session

Lab projects have to be submitted at a specific deadline. About 10-15% of the credit associated with the lab are

allocated for lab exercises and 85-90% are allocated to lab projects.

The lab will be held regularly through end of March 2006, and less regularly in the last 4 weeks of the semester.

There will be no lab on days when there is a COSC 3480 exam

There will a makeup class and no lab on Tu., March 7, 2006 Program demos for Project5 will be held during the lab time.

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Lab Project Preview

Project 1: Defining Relations 1 weekProject 2/3: Writing SQL queries 2 weeksProject 4: Views, PL/SQL, triggers, report generators,

… 3 weeksProject 5: Database design, creating a database

application, C# interface to Oracle, updating a database, designing user interfaces… 4 weeks

Project 6: TBDL 1 week

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Relationship of Lab to Other Elements of the Course

Lab and Lecture/Exams/Homeworks are complementary Topics covered in the lab but not in the class

PL/SQL Triggers Database Programming How to use a DBMS [Object-relation features of Oracle]

Topics covered by both class and lab (but complementary) Relational data model Database Design Writing SQL queries [Data Cubes and the Multi-dimensional Data Model}

Topics covered in lecture only Relational Algebra Entity-Relationship Data Model Writing SQL Queries

Learn how todefine tables

Learn how to loadand create an

Oracle database

Learn how to define user views

Data Warehousing

OLAP/Data Cubes

ConceptualSchema Design

Generate SQL Plus reports

Learn PL/SQLbasics

PL/SQLCursorsPL/SQL Functions

Procedures and Packages

PL/SQLTriggers

Developer 2000 Datablock Forms

Developer2000 reports

ODL/OQLbasics

Learn how to writecomplex SQL Queries

Data Mining

MS SQL 2000Analysis Server

Decision TreesClustering

Oracle9i

RelationalDatabase Design

Lab 2006 Activities

Object-Relational features

Support for XML Java/C++ Interfaces

Other DBMS (Access/Server 2003