University of Bridgeport
Department of Computer Science & Engineering

CS 450: Database Design

Instructor

Prof. Khaled M. Elleithy, Tech Building, Room 229

Telephone: (203) 576-4703            Email: elleithy@bridgeport.edu

Text Book

C.J. Date, An Introduction to Database Systems, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 2000

Course Page: http://www.bridgeport.edu/~elleithy/cs450sp2002

Topics

An Overview of Database Management.

Entity Relationship model

Database System Architecture.

An Introduction to Relational Databases.

An Introduction to SQL.

Domains, Relations, and Base Relvars.

Relational Algebra.

Integrity.

Views.

Functional Dependencies.

Further Normalization I: 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, BCNF.

Grading Policy

Assignments                     20 %

Midterm                           20 %

Project                             30 % 

Final Exam                       30 % 

 

Important:

·        All class announcements will be posted at http://www.bridgeport.edu/~elleithy/cs450sp2002/Announcements.html

·        It is your responsibility to check the announcements page regularly because important information related to the course are posted there.

·        No late assignments, exams, or projects.