CSC2161 and CSC3161 Database Management Systems
Semester 2, 1998
Lecturer :
Dr. David Dowe,
School of
CS
SE,
Faculty of IT,
Monash University, Australia.
Recommended text
Date, C. J., An Introduction to Database Systems,
6th edn., Addison-Wesley (Addison-Wesley Longman), 1995.
Other recommended texts
Elmasri, R. and S. B. Navathe,
Fundamentals of Database Systems,
2nd edn.,
Benjamin-Cummings (Addison-Wesley Longman), 1994.
Ullman, J.D.
and
J. Widom,
A
First Course in Database Systems,
Prentice Hall,
1997.
Additional reading
Hansen, G. W. and J. V. Hansen,
Database management and design,
2nd ed., Prentice-Hall Inc., 1996.
McFadden, F. R. and J. A. Hoffer,
Modern Database management,
4th ed., Menlo Park, Calif. : Addison Wesley, Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Co., 1994
(2nd ed. was c1988).
Zinky, M.A., J. W. Everett and L. J. Hawbaker,
Introduction to INGRES,
Boston : PWS-KENT Pub. Co., c1992.
Books by
Harcourt Brace
Dryden,
or
Morgan Kaufmann.
SQL, Ingres and other
enviroment links :
SQL Standards,
Standard
SQL Publications and Articles.
Oracle7 Server SQL Reference Manual and
index;
and
Operators, Functions,
Expressions, Conditions
(e.g., TO_DATE).
William Yuan's
Ingres Database
Reference Page - with
questions and answers.
Oracle
Corporation,
POET Software
and
Sybase.
Monash University's copy of
Mini SQL (mSQL).
Assignment 2 marking schemes
for
CSC2161
and
CSC3161.
Consultation times and venue for exercises, discussion, assignment, etc.
Tuesday 4:00 - 5:00pm;
Thursday 12:00 - 1:00pm;
Clayton Bldg 26 (CS), Room 102 or Room 103.
Monash Library
Monash
Library
and
catalogue
Monash Computer Centre and CSSE Computing Reference Information
Students enrolled in CSC2161/CSC3161 will have
access
to the following machines:
nellads, ccpc
Monash
Computer Centre
Reference Information and
Information Sheets.
CS
SE
Practical and Tutorial Class Services
(information possibly not available from this link)
Language and Learning Services :
Jill Turnbull's LLS page -
need assistance?
Job links (mainly unofficial - just some I happened to spot)
MONSEACS
(official Monash University page)
Gradlink
Employment Opportunities Australia.
http://www.newsclassifieds.com.au/
Honours and postgraduate study - some options
"Data mining" using
Minimum Message Length
(
MML) :
CSC423 Learning and Prediction.
Honours,
1998 projects
and
some of my Hons. projects.
Postgraduate Course Information
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