Database Course Syllabus

Following is a reading list for the database course. It includes most of the material covered in the lectures as well as some additional material. The chapters are from Ullman's book.

• General Introduction (Chapter 1):
  • Section 1.1
  • Section 1.2
  • Section 1.3
• ER, Network and Relational Models (Chapter 2):
  • Section 2.1
  • Section 2.2
  • Section 2.3
  • Section 2.4
  • Section 2.5
• Relational Languages (Chapter 3):
  • Section 3.1
  • Section 3.2
  • Section 3.3
  • Section 3.6 (only pages 128-131)
  • Section 3.7
  • Section 3.8
  • Section 3.9
• Object Oriented Models (Chapter 5)
• Dependency Theory (Chapter 7)
  • Sections 7.1--7.8
• Transaction Management (Chapter 9):
  • Sections 9.1--9.5
  • Sections 9.7--9.11
• Distributed Database Management (Chapter 10):
  • Sections 10.1--10.8
• Query Optimization (Chapter 11):
  • Sections 11.1--11.10
  • Sections 11.12--11.14