| Date | chapter | MATERIAL (tentative) | Due dates (FIRM) |
| 14-Jan | Ch1 | Intro and System R | |
| 16-Jan | Project discussion | Project starts | |
| 21-Jan | Ch1 | System R (cont) & Evaluation | |
| 23-Jan | Ch1 | Ingres | |
| 28-Jan | Ch2 | OS+ DBMSs; R-trees and GiST | |
| 30-Jan | Extra | Z-ordering | |
| 4-Feb | Ch2 | Buffer management | HW1 out: Z-ordering |
| 6-Feb | Ch2 | Join processing | |
| 11-Feb | Ch2 | Access path selection | |
| 13-Feb | Ch3 | Locking granularity | |
| 18-Feb | Ch3 | Optimistic CC | Project proposal due |
| 20-Feb | Ch3 | CC on B-trees; ARIES | |
| 25-Feb | MIDTERM | MIDTERM | |
| 27-Feb | Ch4 | Distributed DB - R* design | |
| 4-Mar | Ch4 | R* q-opt and trans. management | HW1: due |
| 6-Mar | BREAK | BREAK | |
| 11-Mar | Ch4 | Replication & Mariposa | |
| 13-Mar | Ch5 | Parallel DB - intro | |
| 18-Mar | Ch5 | GAMMA and Alphasort | HW2 out: R-trees |
| 20-Mar | Ch6 | OO/OR DBMS - intro | Project report due |
| 25-Mar | SPRING BREAK | BREAK | |
| 27-Mar | SPRING BREAK | BREAK | |
| 1-Apr | Ch8 | Benchmarks | |
| 3-Apr | Ch7 | Data Mining - intro | |
| 8-Apr | Ch7 | Data Cube operator | |
| 10-Apr | Ch7 | Association Rules | HW2 due |
| 15-Apr | Extra | Histograms and wavelets | |
| 17-Apr | Extra | Streams, burstiness and fractals | |
| 22-Apr | Extra | Time series, sketches and SVD | |
| 24-Apr | Extra | XML; graph data mining | final project due |
| 29-Apr | Extra | Multimedia indexing | |
| 1-May | Ch9 | Vision Statements & Review |
Last Updated on 1/12/2003, by Christos Faloutsos