November 5, 2025

Wednesday of Week 11

Topics of the day

Database components
Relational models

| Reading | Online | Assignments |

Suggested readings

Sections 2.4, 5.1 from Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant Navathe, Fundamentals of database systems, 4e
Sections 2.4, 3.1 from Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant Navathe, Fundamentals of database systems, 6e
Section 1.2 from Jeffrey Ullman and Jennifer Widom, A first course in database systems, 2e
Section 3.1 from Mark Allen Weiss, Data structures and algorithm analysis in C++, 3e

Online references

Database (en.wikipedia.org)
Relational database (en.wikipedia.org)
Relation (en.wikipedia.org)
Examples of CREATE/INSERT (alvinalexander.com)

Assignments

Today

Project 3: A* due
Project 4: Database out

Upcoming

Homework 6 due (10 Nov)
Project 4: Database prep due (12 Nov)
Project 3: A* followup (12 Nov)