Introduction to Database Systems
UC Berkeley, Spring 2021
- The schedule and dates listed below are tentative and may be subject to change.
- The Syllabus contains a detailed explanation of how each course component will work this spring, given that the course is being taught entirely online.
- Waitlist information: The class is currently full with a long waitlist. Sadly due to teaching budget cuts we won't be able to expand the class or take concurrent enrollment students this semester, and will let the waitlist play out on its own.
- If you plan to add late, make sure you contact the staff first to see if you can make up the missed assignments.
| Week | Date | Lecture | Discussion | Vitamin | Project | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tu 1/19 | 1. Introduction + SQL I | No Section | Pre-Semester Quiz Vitamin 1 |
Project 0 (due 1/25) | Note 0 |
| Th 1/21 | 2. SQL II | Project 1 | Note 1 | |||
| 2 | Tu 1/26 | 3. Disk, Buffers, Files I | Discussion 1 | Vitamin 2 | ||
| Th 1/28 | 4. Disks, Buffers, Files II | |||||
| 3 | Tu 2/2 | 5. B+ Trees | Discussion 2 | Vitamin 3 | ||
| Th 2/4 | 6. Indices & B+ Tree Refinements | Project 2 | ||||
| 4 | Tu 2/9 | 7. Buffer Management | Discussion 3 | Vitamin 4 | ||
| Th 2/11 | 8. Relational Algebra | |||||
| 5 | Tu 2/16 | 9. Sorting & Hashing | Discussion 4 | Vitamin 5 | ||
| Th 2/18 | Additional Time for Sorting and Hashing | |||||
| 6 | Tu 2/23 | 10. Iterators & Joins | Discussion 5 | Vitamin 6 | Project 3 | |
| Th 2/25 | Midterm 1 (5:30PM-7:30PM) (No Lecture) |
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| 7 | Tu 3/2 | 13. Query Opt: Plan Space | Discussion 6 | Vitamin 7 | ||
| Th 3/4 | 14. Query Opt: Costs & Search | |||||
| 8 | Tu 3/9 | 15. Transactions & Concurrency I | Discussion 7 | Vitamin 8 | ||
| Th 3/11 | 16. Transactions & Concurrency II | |||||
| 9 | Tu 3/16 | 17. DB Design: Entity-Relationship Models | Discussion 8 | Vitamin 9 | Project 4 | |
| Th 3/18 | 18. DB Design: FDs and Normalization | |||||
| Tu 3/23 | Spring Break | |||||
| Th 3/25 | Spring Break | |||||
| 10 | Tu 3/30 | 19. Recovery I | Discussion 9 | Vitamin 10 | ||
| Th 4/1 | 20. Recovery II | |||||
| Th 4/1 | Midterm 2 (5:30PM-7:30PM) |
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| 11 | Tu 4/6 | 21. Parallel Query Processing I | Discussion 10 | Vitamin 11 | ||
| Th 4/8 | 22. Parallel Query Processing II | Project 5 | ||||
| 12 | Tu 4/13 | 23. Distributed Transactions I | Discussion 11 | Vitamin 12 | ||
| Th 4/15 | 24. Distributed Transactions II | |||||
| 13 | Tu 4/20 | 25. NoSQL I | Discussion 12 | Vitamin 13 | ||
| Th 4/22 | 26. NoSQL II | Project 6 | ||||
| 14 | Tu 4/27 | 27. MapReduce and Spark | Discussion 13 | |||
| Th 4/29 | Assorted Topics | |||||
| 15 | Tu 5/4 | RRR Week | ||||
| Th 5/6 | RRR Week | |||||
| 16 | Th 5/13 | Final Exam (11:30AM-2:30PM) |