Syllabus

NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT NAME
COURSE CODE – COURSE NAME
(# class hours, # lab hours, # credits)

Course Description

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Course Objectives

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Prerequisites

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Required Textbook

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Additional Material

The instructor will identify several additional information resources during the semester including Internet resources and print material (handouts).

Attendance Policy

Attendance is expected at every class meeting. College policy sets that a student may be absent without penalty for 10% of the number of scheduled class meetings during the semester as follows:

Class meets                      Allowable Absence

1 time/week                      2 classes

2 times/week                    3 classes

3 times/week                    4 classes

Academic Integrity Policy

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Grading Procedure

Midterm 20%
Quizzes 20%
Case Assignment/Project 25%
Homework 5%
Final 30
TOTAL 100%

 

Letter Grade A A- B+ B B- C+ C D F
Numerical Grade 93-100 90-92.9 87-89.9 83-86.9 80-82.9 77-79.9 70-76.9 60-69.9 <=59.9

Course Outline

Week 1: January 28 – February 2

Reading Chapter 1, 2

  • Database administration – tasks and role

  • Review of Database design and modeling

Week 2: February 4 – 9

Reading Chapter 5

Oracle database architecture

  • Database structures
  • Processes
  • Understanding memory structure

Week 3: February 11 – 16

Reading Chapter 6

Tablespaces

  • Creating and maintaining
  • Uses:
    • Storage
    • User access and security
    • Backup
    • Data transfer

Week 4: February 18 – 23

Reading Chapter 7

Schema Management

  • Types of SQL statements
  • Schemas
  • Managing Tables; temporary, index-organized, external, partitioned

Week 5: February 25 – March 2

Chapter 8

Managing Data and Concurrency

  • Locking
  • Concurrency
  • UNDO data

Week 6: March 4 – 9

Reading Chapter 9

Installing, uninstalling and upgrading the DBMS

Week 7: March 11 – 16

Review and Midterm Exam

Week 8: March 18 – 23

Reading: Chapter 10

Creating Database

  • Creating parameter file
  • Starting and stopping the database
  • Log and trace files

Week 9: March 25 – 30

Reading Chapter 12

User management and database security

  • Managing users
  • Database resource manager
  • Controlling database access
  • Auditing database usage

Week 10: April 1 – 6

Reading Chapter 13

Loading and transforming data

  • Using external tables
  • Transforming data in existing tables

Week 11: April 8 – 13

Reading Chapter 19

Improving database and query performance

  • Optimizing query processing

Week 12: April 15 – 20

Reading Chapter 20

Performance and tuning

  • Tuning memory
  • Evaluating system performance
  • Measuring I/O performance

Week 13: April 22 – 27

Reading Chapter 15, 16

Backup and Recovery

  • Backing up the database
  • Recovery manager
  • Database corruption detection
  • Data protection for disaster recovery

Week 14: April 29 – May 4

Reading Handouts, internet sources

Advanced topics:

  • Managing distributed databases
  • Managing data warehouse

Week 15: April 15

FINAL

Assessment Criteria

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  2. Evaluation methods and criteria
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Bibliography

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