Northeastern University Online College of Professional Studies Course Syllabus ITC2300 Database Systems Spring 2018, 16-week term Jan 8, 2018 Apr 28, 2018 Three Credit hours Blended Course Format, Boston Campus Instructor Name: Stephen Kafka E-mail: s.kafka@northeastern.edu Phone Number: 508-944-8180 Required Text(s)/Software/Tools: Database Systems: Design, Implementation, & Management (12 th Edition) Coronel and Morris, Cengage ISBN: 9781305627482 MySQL Workbench and MySQL Sever http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ Instructional videos for the download, installation and use of MySQL will be provided. VMWare Player https://neu.onthehub.com Will be used to create a second instance of MySQL server. Your laptop must be powerful enough to run VMWare Player/Ubuntu. Course Prerequisite MIS2000: Systems Analysis and Design or CET3500 Software Engineering Design YOU CANNOT RECEIVE CREDIT TOWARD GRADUATION FOR BOTH ITC 2300 and ITC 3001 and ITC 3020 Course Description Topics include designing normalized data tables for use in a relational database management system, creating entity-relationship models, database transaction processing and security. Introduces Structured Query Language (SQL). Student Learning Objectives Upon completion the course, students will have had the opportunity to: Identify the data domain and appropriate data elements for an unstructured problem Discuss the concepts of data integrity, redundancy and integrity within a problem context. Model data to third normal form using recognized Entity-Relationship Diagram conventions Create SQL queries that address an information need using simple table joins and filtering techniques. Build a working application in Oracle s MySQL Workbench/Server environment Apply transaction management and concurrency concepts to a data problem scenario Describe data security threats and recommend appropriate security/backup procedures 1
Describe the concepts and tools used for Business Intelligence. Expectations Workload o One (1) academic credit requires 50 minutes a week of classroom or faculty instruction and about two hours of out of class student work for a 15 week course; 100 minutes a week of classroom or direct faculty instruction and about 3.5 hours of out of class student work for a 7.5 week course. o For a three credit course, students should expect 2.5 hours a week of classroom or faculty instruction and a minimum of 5 hours of out of class student work for a 15 week course. Attendance Policy Class participation represents 10% of the final grade. Excused absences are permitted. Otherwise, students are expected to attend all five in class meetings. Policy on late work o Late assignments will AUTOMATICALLY receive half credit. o On ground classes: Assignments are due during the first half hour of class on the due date. (If class begins at 9:30am, you have until 10:00am to hand the assignment in before it is considered late) o Online classes: Each assignment is due at 11:59 pm EST of the date indicated. o If you are absent when an assignment is due, the assignment must still meet the deadline or suffer the penalty of being late. o No make up work (homework, discussion board posts, quizzes, etc) will be permitted. o Extra credit assignments are not available. Course Methodology Each week, you will be expected to: 1. Review the week's learning objectives. 2. Complete all assigned readings. 3. Complete all lecture materials for the week. 4. Participate in the Discussion Board. 5. Complete and submit all assignments and tests by the due dates. For each Coronel chapter assigned there will be a short online multiple choice quiz based on the reading. All quizzes will be untimed (you can start and stop then as many times as necessary before your final submission), multiple-choice and they will all be open notes and open book. The SQL component will be hands-on using MySQL workbench. All ERD diagrams will be drawn in the MySQL workbench environment. Participation/Discussion Board Participation is Discussion Board questions is an essential part of your learning experience. As written in the Grading section of this syllabus, active participation through written responses to 2
Discussion Board "prompts" will earn 10% of your final grade. When fellow students post to the Discussion Board, interaction by other students is desirable and if I can be helpful, I will also participate. Each week you are expected to respond to one of several questions that will be posted. You are also expected to reply to at least two posts by other students. Please try and provide you initial response by Wednesday as this will allow everyone time to post a reply. The discussion board will be closed at midnight each Sunday. Discussion Board Grading Initial Post 50% First Follow-up Post 25% Second Follow-up Post 25% Total 100% Communication/Submission of Work In the Assignments folder, click on the View/Complete Assignment link to view and each assignment. Attach your completed assignments here and click Submit to turn them in to me. Once your assignment has been graded, you will be able to view the grade and feedback I have provided by clicking on My Grades in the Tools module from the Northeastern University Online Campus tab. Grading/Evaluation Standards Discussion Board 10% Class Participation 10% Weekly Quizzes and SQL Assignments 50% Final Exam 30% TOTAL 100% Final course grades will be assigned on the following basis: Grade Numerical Equivalent A 93-100 A- 90-92 B+ 87-89 B 83-86 B- 80-82 C+ 77-79 C 73-76 C- 70-72 D+ 67-69 D 63-66 D- 60-62 F Failure (below 60) 3
Class Schedule / Topical Outline Campus: BOS Course Meeting Times: Wednesday, 5:50 8:20 PM Week Dates Topic Assignments 1 1/8 1/14 Data, information and Database Systems Coronel Chapter 1 Online Quiz Coronel Chapter 1 exercices Install MySQL Install MySQL Server 2 1/15 1/21 Business Rules and Data models 3 1/22 1/28 ERD modeling 4 1/29 2/4 ERD modeling 5 2/5 2/11 Normalization and Referential Integrity Coronel Chapter 2,3 Online Quiz Coronel Chapter 2,3 exercices Coronel Chapter 4 Online Quiz Coronel Chapter 4 exercices ERD Modeling using MySQL workbench ERD Modeling using MySQL workbench Coronel Chapter 6 Online Quiz Coronel Chapter 6 exercices 6 2/12 2/18 Advanced modeling; Inheritance concepts and discriminators Coronel Chapter 5 Online Quiz Coronel Chapter 5 exercices 7 2/19 2/25 8 2/26 3/4 ERD and SQL SQL: Simple DDL commands; Coronel Chapter 7 SQL programming assignements Coronel Chapter 8 Combined ERD and SQL programming assignments 9 3/5 3/11 Spring Break 10 3/12 3/18 ERD and SQL continued 11 3/19 - /325 ERD and SQL continued Combined ERD and SQL programming assignments Combined ERD and SQL programming assignments 12 3/26 4/1 Transaction Management: Commits and Rollbacks Coronel Chapter 10 Online Quiz MySQL TLM Exercises 4
Coronel Chapter 12 Online Quiz 13 4/2-4/8 Distributed Databases 14 4/9 4/15 Business Intelligence and Big Data MySQL exercises using two instances of MySQL server. Coronel Chapter 13 Online Quiz 15 4/16 4/22 Data Administration: backups and security considerations Coronel Chapter 16 Online Quiz MySQL based exercises 16 4/23 4/28 Final Exam End of Course Evaluation Surveys Your feedback regarding your educational experience in this class is very important to the College of Professional Studies. Your comments will make a difference in the future planning and presentation of our curriculum. At the end of this course, please take the time to complete the evaluation survey at https://neu.evaluationkit.com. Your survey responses are completely anonymous and confidential. For courses 6 weeks in length or shorter, surveys will be open one week prior to the end of the courses; for courses greater than 6 weeks in length, surveys will be open for two weeks. An email will be sent to your HuskyMail account notifying you when surveys are available. Academic Integrity A commitment to the principles of academic integrity is essential to the mission of Northeastern University. The promotion of independent and original scholarship ensures that students derive the most from their educational experience and their pursuit of knowledge. Academic dishonesty violates the most fundamental values of an intellectual community and undermines the achievements of the entire University. As members of the academic community, students must become familiar with their rights and responsibilities. In each course, they are responsible for knowing the requirements and restrictions regarding research and writing, examinations of whatever kind, collaborative work, the use of study aids, the appropriateness of assistance, and other issues. Students are responsible for learning the conventions of documentation and acknowledgment of sources in their fields. Northeastern University expects students to complete all examinations, tests, papers, creative projects, and assignments of any kind according to the highest ethical standards, as set forth either explicitly or implicitly in this Code or by the direction of instructors. Go to http://www.northeastern.edu/osccr/academic integrity policy/ to access the full academic integrity policy. 5
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