Course

Introduction
CMPS 342
Database Systems

Spring 2021-22
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What we’ll do today?

What are database Why database What is this course How we’ll proceed
systems? systems? about? with the course?

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How did you
register for the
course?

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You accessed a database!
• When you registered for the course, you accessed
the university database through the university
website.

• A database is an organized collection of structured

information, or data, typically stored electronically
in a computer system.

• What kind of data is stored in a university

database?

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Database Management System (DBMS)
• A database is usually controlled by a database management system
(DBMS).

What DBMS is used for BAU E-Systems?

• A collection of multiple DBMSs
• Oracle DB
• MySQL
• Microsoft SQL Server

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Database System
• Database
• Actual data Database System
• DataBase Management System
• System used to control and manipulate the
database
• Database Application
• Software program/application/website
• Connected to a DBMS
• Accesses the database to show and update the
data
• The database, the DBMS, along with the
applications that are associated with them,
are referred to as a database systems
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What we’ll do today?

What are database Why database What is this course How we’ll proceed
systems? systems? about? with the course?

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Everyday activities
• Depositing or withdrawing funds in a bank
• Making a hotel or airline reservations
• Accessing computerized library catalogues
• Purchasing items at a supermarket

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Databases are everywhere!
• You’ve manipulated a simple database in the
web programming course

• You access databases everyday

• Even software companies are accessing your

data!

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Facebook Data
• Facebook handles up to
• 500 petabyte of data perday
• 10 billion messages/day
• 600 million photos/day

• Query response times: 4 ms

reads, 5 ms writes

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Facebook DBMS
• Facebook uses MySQL for the majority of the data you
would consider as “Facebook data” like posts
comments etc..
• It also uses other DBMSs like
• Hbase
• Cassandra

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Facebook
Datacenters
• Each data center houses
tens of thousands of
computer servers
• massive storage
infrastructure to house
its enormous piles of
data

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Database applications?

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Database Applications
• Enterprise Information
• Sales: customers, products, purchases
• Accounting: payments, receipts, assets
• Human Resources: Information about employees, salaries, payroll taxes.
• Manufacturing: management of production, inventory, orders, supply
chain.
• Banking and finance
• customer information, accounts, loans, and
banking transactions.
• Credit card transactions
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Database Applications
• Airlines: reservations, schedules
• Telecommunication: records of calls,
texts, and data usage, generating monthly
bills, maintaining balances on prepaid
calling cards
• Web-based services
• Online retailers: order tracking, customized
recommendations
• Online advertisements

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Database Applications
• Document databases
• Navigation systems
• maintaining the locations of various places of interest, exact routes of
roads, train systems, buses, etc.

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Traditional Databases
• Information stored and accessed is
textural or numeric
➔ Fundamentals of database
technology

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Multimedia Databases
• Big Data Storage Systems (NoSQL)
• Data for social media applications
• Data require in the Web search engines
• Cloud Storage
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Storing and analyzing maps
• Weather data
• Satellite images
• Online Analytical Processing systems (OLAP)
• Extracting and analyzing useful business information
• Decision making support
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What we’ll do today?

What are database Why database What is this course How we’ll proceed
systems? systems? about? with the course?

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 1 2 3

Learn important Apply database Become familiar

basic topics in analysis, design with some
techniques and commercial
Database relational database
database theories
Systems and management
data models system and related
software

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 1 2 3

Learn important Apply database Become familiar

basic topics in analysis, design with some
techniques and commercial
Database relational database
database theories
Systems and management
data models system and related
software

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 1 2 3

Learn important Apply database Become familiar

basic topics in analysis, design with some
techniques and commercial
Database relational database
database theories
Systems and management
data models system and related
software

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Suggested Text

• Fundamentals of Database Systems, R.

Elmasri and S.B. Navathe, 7th Edition,
2016, Pearson Education Inc.

• Additional material will be provided

during the class.

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What we’ll do today?

What are database Why database What is this course How we’ll proceed
systems? systems? about? with the course?

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ON Campus or Online

You will be updated Next week is on campus

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Apps Used

• Microsoft Teams for the online classes

• Moodle to access the class material, submit lab

exercises and assignments

• Slack for sharing interesting ideas and for after

class questions, discussions and interaction (class
material will also be shared on slack)

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Course Lab Instructors

Bassam El Masri Salma Ghali Madona Zankar

Beirut Debbieh
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 Course Info

Prerequisites Grade Division

• Required: CMPS 242 • Attendance and Participation 10%
• reasonable understanding of data • Tasks (project, lab, homework) 30%
structures • Midterm Exam 20%
• Final Exam 40%

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Class Guidelines

ATTEND ON TIME KEEP ANY SHARE YOUR IDEAS ASK QUESTIONS

DISTRACTIONS AND DISCUSS
AWAY

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Lab Guidelines

WILL BE GIVEN SOLVING LAB DON’T COPY DISCUSS SUBMIT ON TIME

WEEKLY ON ASSIGNMENTS SOLUTIONS WITH
CAMPUS HELPS YOU ACE ME OR WITH YOUR
EXAMS CLASSMATES

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Project Guidelines

GROUPS OF CONSTITUTES 15% OF SUBMIT PROPOSAL FINAL PRESENTATION

MAXIMUM 2 THE COURSE + REPORT

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Assessment Guidelines

MIDTERM EXAM NO MAKE-UP EXAMS ARE PREPARE WELL

ALLOWED
FINAL EXAM

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How to get in contact?
https://join.slack.com/t/baucmps342/shared_in
Chat on slack workspace vite/zt-12n5ojh1u-1_kxl88d7obp4djY3zA8uw

Send an email to l.affara@bau.edu.lb

Debbieh: Monday 10:00-11:00 Lab Bldg B115

Visit me during my Office Hours
Beirut: Tuesday 11:00-12:00 H1116

Keep track of Moodle

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Please check the
course syllabus

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