CPSC 504: Tentative Schedule

Paper Selection Information

For now, you should sign up for different days to present and lead the discussion on. I'll rebalance after drop/add has ended if there are more students than days. Please note that paper sign up is first come first served. To sign up for papers to present or discuss, send me e-mail.

Note that accessing many of these papers may require being logged into the VPN

Week of: Monday Wednesday
January 5/7 Introduction & class outline - what data do you have?
Introduction to databases: part 1
Optional reading (note: no need to turn in a review - the next one will be the one I will tell you what you would have gotten if I were grading, but will not actually grade)
Lightly debugged slides for next two classes in PDF. Additional relational algebra slides
Rachel presents and leads discussion
January 12/14 Introduction to databases: part 2
Rachel presents and leads discussion

Rachel presents and leads discussion
January 19/21 Query Optimization Overview
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Homework due: design a database for your data
 Two query optimizers
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January 26/28 Query Execution
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Project: one page project proposal due 		Transaction Processing (slides)
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February 2/4 Answering Queries Using Views/Data Integration
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Discussion: 		Adaptive Execution
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February 9/11 Rachel out of town: No class Object-oriented and Object-relational databases
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February 16/18 Reading week: no class
February 23/25 XML
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Discussion: 		60 years of data models: what goes around comes around
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Project: 4 page midterm status report due
March 2/4 On Line Analytic Processing (OLAP)
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Discussion: 		Parallel Databases and No SQL
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March 9/11 Critiquing No SQL
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Discussion: 		New-SQL
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March 16/18 Data Mining
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The Role of Theory
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March 23/25 Advanced Topics/Student Request Potpourri: TBD
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Discussion: 		Future of DBMS research
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March 30/April 1 Project Reports: Project Reports:
April 6/8 Easter Monday: No class Project reports:
Tuesday, April 14 Project: final report due

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Rachel Pottinger
E-mail Address: rap [at] cs [dot] ubc [dot] ca
Office Location: ICCS 345
Phone: (604)822-0436
Fax:(604)822-5485
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