Course info

• Syllabus
• schedule
• Foils

• Project
• Homeworks
• Exams

• *** 12/5/2003 ***: Older final exam and solutions (internal to CMU)
• *** Extra office hour by instructor: Fri 12/6, 1:30-2:30
•  12/3/2003  Solution to homeworks 5 and 6 are posted, below
•  12/2/2003 Final exam study guide is out

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Course information

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

office: Wean Hall 7127, ph (412)-268.1457
office hours: Tu 1-2, We 3-4, or by appointment
• Class meets:  Tu-Th 3:00-4:20 PH 100
• Teaching assistants and office hours ( all in WeH 3108 or 3130)
• Ulas BARDAK (ubardak AT andrew) 
• Deepay CHAKRABARTI (deepay AT cs)
• Vinod DAS KRISHNAN (vdk AT andrew)
• URL for this very page: www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/dbms.F02

Syllabus
Schedule
Lecture foils

Project

• Project description (in postscript and PDF)
• FYI, draft grading scheme for demos

Homeworks

• Homework 1 and solutions (ms-word and pdf) 
• Homework 2 and solutions 
• Homework 3 and solutions 
• Homework 4  and test script
• Homework 5 in postscript and pdf. Solutions (12/3/2002)
• Homework 6 in postscript and pdf. Solutions (12/3/2002)
• Homework 7

Exams

• Midterm study guide (10/1/2002)
• Older midterms (F01, F00, S00)
• Solutions to current exam (internal to CMU)
• Final exam study guide (12/2/2002)
• *** 12/5/2002 *** Older final exam  , and solutions

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