Professor Adler's Spring 2023 Dynamic Course Outline
This schedule is tentative and may change throughout the semester.
All work must be submitted on time! All work is due Tuesdays no later than 5:15pm.
All lecture notes can be found on D2L.
Go to the D2L Discussion board titled Introduction under the D2L Discussions Tab.
Introduce yourselves to each other. Describe yourself. What is your background? What would you like to do after you graduate? What is a fun fact about yourself?
Reply to at least TWO of your classmates' threads.
Go to the D2L Discussion board titled Interviews. Interview at least one user of database systems (programmer, DBA, etc.).
Answer the following question on the discussion board:
Where does this person work?
Which DBMS does the interviewee use?
What is the purpose of their database?
What does this user perceive to be the advantages and disadvantages of their DBMS?
Any additional question you would like to ask? Provide your question and the response.
Read your classmates' interviews AND reply to at least TWO of your classmates' posts.
Go to the D2L Quiz titled Database Environment and more under the D2L Quizzes tab.
You will have 45 minutes to complete the 10 question quiz.
It is open book. However, you must complete the quiz on your own without the help of anyone else.
Before beginning the quiz - review chapters 1-3 (Introduction, Database Environment, and Database Architecture), watch the videos, read the lectures notes, and do the assignment above, and then take the quiz.
Note: Quizzes will become available 48 hours (2 days) before the due date.
All assignments must always be your own and done independently or you will receive a 0. If you provide your
answers to another student you will also receive a 0.