Course info

• Syllabus
• schedule
• Foils

• Project
• Homeworks
• Exams

MOST IMPORTANT

• Old exam (covered in the last class) (12/12/2001) 
• .... and solutions (12/13/2001)
• Office hours by instructor:
• We 12/12 1-2pm
• Th 12/13 12-1pm, 4-5pm
• Study guide for final exam (12/10/2001)

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Course information

• Instructor: Christos Faloutsos, mail: christos@cs.cmu.edu

office: Wean Hall 7127, ph (412)-268.1457
office hours: W 1-2, Th 12-1, at WeH7127
• Teaching assistants and office hours (all in WeH 3108 or 3130)
• Ulas Bardak ubardak@andrew (Mo-Fr 12-1) 
• Alex Gray agray@cs (Tu-We 9:30-10:30) 
• Georgios Markakis markakis@cs (We 4:30-5:30, Fri 1-2)
• Class meets: Tu-Th 3-4:20, in PH 100
• URL for this very web page: www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/dbms.F01

Please check it often!

Syllabus
Schedule
Lecture foils

Project 

• Project description (postscript, pdf, html)
• phase-II solutions
• sample java+SQL files (old hw3 samples, plus one more class, all in one place: 
• tar xvf 
• put your login and password and
• do 'make'
• phase-III grading directions and FAQs; amended 

Homeworks

• Homework 1  and solutions
• Homework 2 and solutions
• Homework 3 and solutions

See also the book on Java servlets, on reserve in the library (4th floor of Wean: Java Servlet programming, by J. Hunter and W. Crawford
• Homework 4. and solutions (btree_sol.tar.gz)
• Homework 5 (ps and pdf) and solutions 
• Homework 6 (ps and pdf) and solutions 

Exams

• Midterm
• Midterm study guide. See also the books on reserve in the library, for more exercises and examples.
• current midterm and solutions 
• Older midterms:
• Fall 00 and solutions; 
• Spring 00 and solutions
• Final exam
• Final exam study guide (12/10/2001)
• old exam (Spring 00) (12/12/2001) and solutions (12/13/2001)

Newsgroups

• academic.cs.15-415.discuss or cyrus.academic.cs.15-415.discuss: Feel free to post course-related messages here.
• academic.cs.15-415.announceor cyrus.academic.cs.15-415.announce: Low traffic news group, for announcements by the instructor. Please do not post here

Miscellaneous DB resources

• ACM SIGMOD home page (wealth of info: publications, vendors, free db products ...)
• Vendors: Oracle, Sybase, IBM - DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix

Misc info

• Fall 2001 CS course schedule