Advanced Database Systems CAP364

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Advanced Database SystemsCAP364

• Semester 1 1430/1431

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Course Personnel

• Lecturers
• Dr. Hanan Hosni
• Office Location Room B5 Building 20
• Office Hours Mon, Wed 10-1
• e-mail hanan.hosni_at_yahoo.com
• Dr. Shurug Al-Khalifa
• Office Location Room 81 Building 20
• Office Hours Sat, Sun, Mon, Tues, Wed 8-9,
  12-1
• e-mail salkhalifa_at_ksu.edu.sa

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Textbook
Database Systems A Practical Approach to
Design, Implementation and Management.
Thomas Connolly, Carolyn Begg 3rd Edition,
2002 or later
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Reference Books
Fundamentals of Database Systems.
Ramez Elmasri, Shamkant Navathe. 3rd Edition,
2000 Database systems, Design, Implementation,
Management Peter Rob, Carlos Coronel. 4th
Edition. 2000
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Course Requirements
2 Quizzes (10) Lab Weekly Assignments coding
and regular (15) 2 Major Exams (35) Final Exam
(40)
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Important Dates

• Quiz 1 Monday 7/12/2009
• Mid 1 Monday 14/12/2009
• Quiz 2 Monday 4/1/2010
• Mid 2 Monday 11/1/2010

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Course Website

• www.ksu-it.com/cap364

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Syllabus

• Object-Oriented Databases.
• Object-Relational Databases.
• Transaction Processing, Concurrency Control,
  Recovery management.
• Query Processing.
• Distributed Databases.
• Enterprise-wide database technology data
  warehouse data mining.
• XML and Web Data.