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Hacettepe University
Department of Information Management
BBY309 Database Management Systems (Fall
2004) Yaşar Tonta
Time and place: Friday 09:10-13:00 (Seminary Room)
Instructor: Yaşar
Tonta (e-mail: tonta@hacettepe.edu.tr;
tel: 297 82 04)
Course web site: http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/courses/fall2004/bby309/bby309dersamac2004.htm/
Goals: This course is
concerned with the application of Database Management Systems (DBMS) to solve a
wide range of information storage and retrieval problems, particularly in
libraries and information centers. We
will combine the practical aspects of DBMS use with more theoretical
discussions of database design methodologies and the “internals” of
database systems.
Assignments: Assignments in
this course will be related to Cookie and Diveshop databases to familiarize you
with the systems that you will be using in library environments. We will discuss these assignments further in
class.
It should be obvious that you
will need to spend time in the Department’s Microcomputer Lab or at home
using MS Access.
Grades: Grades for this
course will be based on completion of the assignments, final project, and
participation in class discussions.
Texts: The required textbook for the course is:
Kroenke, David M. Database Processing:
Fundamentals, Design, and Implementation.
8th Edition. Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.
A copy of this book is available
at Beytepe Library Reserve Collection (QA76.9 D3 K76
2001). I am also prepared to
share my copy (6th ed.) with you and
make the needed chapters available for xeroxing.
An older edition (1990) of this book can be found at Bilkent University Library Reserve collection.
We will be using MS Access 2000 as a database
management system to complete assignments
and design final projects. You can find several books
on Microsoft Access 2000 in the bookshops
and libraries (Microsoft's "Hızlı Kurs", "Field Guide" series are among
them).
For the web database development component of the course, some chapters
of the following book are relevant:
Jim Buyens, Web
Veritabanı Geliştirme. Ankara: Arkadaş Kitabevi,
2000.
Some of the recommended sources are as follows:
Elmasri, Ramez and
Shamkant B. Navathe. Fundamentals of Database
Systems.
Second Edition. Redwood City, Calif.:
Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Co., 1994.
McFadden, F.R. and J.A. Hoffer, Data Base Management. (2d ed.) Menlo Park, CA:
Benjamin Cummings Publishing Co., 1988. (1994 edition can also be found)
Atre, S. Data Base: Structured Techniques for Design, Performance,
and Management.
New York: Wiley, 1980.
Academic or scholastic dishonesty, such as plagiarism, cheating, or
academic fraud, will not be tolerated and will incur the most severe penalties,
including failure for the course. All
individual work is assumed to be done individually and responsibly. If there is any concern about behavior that
may be academically dishonest, please consult the instructor. Students are also encouraged to refer to the
Higher Education Council’s “By-Law of the Student Code of
Conduct” (Yükseköğretim Kurumları
Öğrenci Disiplin Yönetmeliği), especially clause 9/m, which states that
students attempting to cheat or plagiarize shall be expelled from school for
one or two academic semesters.
Yaşar Tonta
Last updated: November 26, 2004