DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING

CS 4307: Database Systems

Spring 2025 Reading
Jan 6–10 6: relational model
Jan 13–17 6: introduction to SQL
Jan 20–24 (MLK Day) 7: constraints and triggers
Jan 27–31 8: views and indexes, recursion
Feb 3–7 3: design theory
Feb 10–14 13: secondary storage management
Feb 17–21 (President’s Day) 14: index structures
Feb 24–28 15: query execution
Mar 3–7
Mar 10–14 (Spring Break)
Mar 17–21 16: the query compiler
Mar 24–28
Mar 31–Apr 4 17: coping with system failure
Apr 7–11
Apr 14–18 18: concurrency control
Apr 21–25 (Thursday last day)

All readings refer to chapters in the textbook.

Last Updated 01/05/2025