Introduction to Database Systems

UC Berkeley, Fall 2020

Alvin Cheung

akcheung@cs.berkeley.edu

Pronouns: he/him/his

OH: Tuesday 11AM-12PM

Aditya Parameswaran

adityagp@eecs.berkeley.edu

Pronouns: he/him/his

OH: Thursday 11AM-12PM

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• The Syllabus contains a detailed explanation of how each course component will work this fall, given that the course is being taught entirely online.
• The scheduling of all weekly events is in the Calendar.
• The Public Google Drive contains various course materials.
• YouTube playlists for all class content can be found at the following:
  • Lectures
  • Discussion and Exam Prep Sections
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Week	Date	Lecture	Discussion	Vitamin	Project	Resources
1	Th 8/27	1. Introduction + SQL I Audio Video	No Section	Pre-Semester Quiz (due 9/4) Vitamin 1 (due 9/6)	Project 0 (due 9/3) Project 1 (due 9/10)	Note 0
2	Tu 9/1	2. SQL I (cont) + SQL II Video				Note 1
	Th 9/3	3. SQL II (cont) + Disks, Buffers, Files I Video	Discussion 1 Worksheet Solutions Recording			Note 2
3	Tu 9/8	4. Disks, Buffers, Files I (cont) + Disks, Buffers, Files II Video		Vitamin 2 (due 9/16)
	Th 9/10	5. Cost Models and Index + B+ Trees Video	Discussion 2 Worksheet Solutions Recording		Project 2 (due 9/24)	Note 3 Exam Prep 1
4	Tu 9/15	6. Indices & B+ Tree Refinements (Part 1) (Part 2) Video		Vitamin 3 (due 9/23)
	Th 9/17	7. Buffer Management Video	Discussion 3 Worksheet Solutions Recording	Vitamin 4 (due 9/27)		Note 4
5	Tu 9/22	8. Relational Algebra Video				Note 5
	Th 9/24	9. Sorting & Hashing Video	Discussion 4 Worksheet Solutions Recording	Vitamin 5 (due 10/2)		Note 6 Note 7 Exam Prep 2
6	Tu 9/29	10. Iterators & Joins I Video			Project 3 (Part 1 due 10/10, Part 2 due 10/18)	Note 8
	Th 10/1	11. Iterators & Joins II Video	Discussion 5 Worksheet Solutions Recording	Vitamin 6 (due 10/12)
7	Mo 10/5	Midterm 1
	Tu 10/6	12. Query Opt: Plan Space Video				Note 9 Postgres Query Optimization
	Th 10/8	13. Query Opt: Costs & Search Video	Discussion 6 Worksheet Solutions Recording	Vitamin 7 (due 10/19)
8	Tu 10/13	14. Transactions & Concurrency I Video				Note 10
	Th 10/15	15. Transactions & Concurrency II Video	Discussion 7 Worksheet Solutions Recording	Vitamin 8 (due 10/26)	Project 4 (Part 1 due 11/8, Part 2 due 11/12)	Note 11 Exam Prep 3
9	Tu 10/20	16. Recovery I Video
	Th 10/22	17. Recovery II Video	Discussion 8 Worksheet Solutions Recording	Vitamin 9 (due 11/9)		Note 12
10	Tu 10/27	18. Recovery II (cont) Video
	Th 10/29	19. DB Design: ER Models (Part 1) (Part 2) Video	Discussion 9 Worksheet Solutions Recording			Exam Prep 4 Note 13
11	Mo 11/2	Midterm 2
	Tu 11/3	No lecture. Vote!
	Th 11/5	20. DB Design: FDs and Normalization (Part 1) (Part 2) Video	Discussion 10 Worksheet Solutions Recording	Vitamin 10 (due 11/16)	Project 5 (Part 1 due 11/22, Part 2 due 12/2)
12	Tu 11/10	21. Parallel Query Processing (Part 1) (Part 2) Video				Note 14
	Th 11/12	22. Data Replication and Distributed Transactions I (Part 1) Video	Discussion 11 Worksheet Solutions Recording	Vitamin 11 (due 11/23)
13	Tu 11/17	23. Data Replication and Distributed Transactions II (Part 2) Video				Note 15
	Th 11/19	24. NoSQL I Video	Discussion 12 Worksheet Solutions	Vitamin 12
14	Tu 11/24	25. NoSQL II			Project 6 (due 12/6)
	Th 11/26	Thanksgiving	No Section	Vitamin 13
15	Tu 12/1	TBD
	Th 12/3	TBD	TBD
16	Tu 12/8	RRR Week
	Th 12/10	RRR Week
17	M 12/14	Final Exam (3PM-6PM)