Introduction to Databases (self study)

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Kurssilla tutustutaan tiedon esitysmuotoihin ja tiedon hakuun suurista tietomääristä. Erityisenä painopisteenä ovat relaatiotietokannat, joiden kohdalla perehdytään toisaalta teoreettiseen perustaan ja toisaalta tietokannan käytännön käsittelyyn SQL-kielen avulla. Kurssilla opitaan myös perustiedot relaatiotietokantojen suunnittelusta.

Exam

15.10.2012 16.00 A111
Year Semester Date Period Language In charge
2012 autumn 04.09-12.10. 1-1 Finnish

Lectures

Time Room Lecturer Date
Tue 12-14 CK112 Harri Laine 04.09.2012-04.09.2012

Exercise groups

Group: 1
Time Room Instructor Date Observe
Mon 14-16 B222 Aleksi Majander 10.09.2012—12.10.2012
Group: 2
Time Room Instructor Date Observe
Tue 14-16 D122 Aleksi Majander 10.09.2012—12.10.2012
Group: 3
Time Room Instructor Date Observe
Thu 16-18 C222 Harri Laine 10.09.2012—12.10.2012

Kurssi toteutetaan itseopiskelukurssina ja luentoja on vain yksi aloitusluento.

General

This course is an introduction to database concepts, data modeling, design and use of databases. It is a self-study course with only one lecture session (in Finnish). There are scheduled exercises and a small project work that is planed to be done as a group work (it may also be carried out as an indivuidual project). The students that have registered for an exercise group are dividen into smaller groups of 4-6 students for the project work. Project groups that use English as their working language are arranged when needed. Exercise group sessions are used mainly for the project work. The use of a database may be exercised in an automated training environment. The solutions for the exercise tasks will be published after the dedline of each group of tasks

As a prerequisite the students should manage the basic concepts of the mathematical set theory and the basics of programming.

Completing the course

Credits may be obtained from

  • Course exam (or renewal exam): at most 45 points,
  • SQL exercises, at most 9 points
  • Project work at most 6 points.
  • to pass the course you need at least 30 points.

Literature and material

  • The E-learning material and the exercise facilities are collected in the Moodle learning environment:  https://moodle.helsinki.fi/course/view.php?id=7344 . To login the environment you should use your main user account  and password.  The password needed for course registration is  tikapes12.
  • Potential text books (chapters and pages listed in e-learning material)
    • Ramakrishnan r. & Gehrke J.: Database Management Systems, 3rd. ed, McGraw-Hill, 2003.
    • R. Elmasri & S. B. Navathe: Fundamentals of Database Systems, 5th ed., Addison-Wesley, 2007. (myös vanhempi 4. painos vuodelta 2003 käy)

Old exams may be found  in www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/laine/tikape/koe/