ANNOUNCEMENTS

• *** 4/3 ***: HW6 solutions are online.
  
• *** 3/29 ***: HW5 solutions are online.
  
• *** 3/25 ***: HW7 recitation foils are online.
  
• *** 3/25 ***: HW7 is out.
  
• *** 3/21***: Recitations for HW7, as announced on BB: Wed 2:30-3:20, @ SH 219, on 3/26, 4/2, 4/9.
  
• 3/18: HW6 is out.
  
•  3/9:  solutions to HW4 are out.
  
•  3/6:  solutions to HW3 are out.
  
•  2/27:  HW5 is out.
  
•  2/24:  midterm study guide is out
  
•  2/21:  solutions to HW2 are out.
  
•  2/20:  HW4 is out.
  
•  2/17:  reminder - PPS of foils is here
  
•  2/11:  HW3 recitation foils.
  
•  2/11:  recitations for hw3, as mentioned on bboard/announcements
•  2/11:  solutions to HW1 are out.
  
•  2/9: HW3 is out
  
• 2/4: HW 2 is out
• 1/28 HW 1 is out
• Welcome to the class!

PEOPLE:

Instructors:

• Andy Pavlo                    (Office Hours:   Mo 12-1pm,   and by appointment   @GHC 9019)
  
• Christos Faloutsos       (Office Hours:   Wed 12-1pm  and by appointment   @GHC 8019)

TAs:

Name	email	office hours	room
* Alex BEUTEL	abeutel@cs.cmu.edu	Tu 3-4	GHC 7004
* Evangelos ('Vagelis') PAPALEXAKIS	epapalex@cs.cmu.edu	Th 3-4	GHC 9219
* Shen WANG	shenw@andrew.cmu.edu	Fri 1-2	GHC 4122
* Ming ZHONG	mz@andrew.cmu.edu	Mo 3-4	GHC 4122

Course Secretary: Marilyn Walgora, GHC 8120

CLASS MEETS:

Place/Time: DH A302, Tue-Thur 1:30-2:50 PM
Recitations: Wed 2:30-3:20PM (only before major homeworks - TBA)

TEXTBOOK:

• Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke, "Database Management Systems," McGraw-Hill 2002 (3rd ed).

BULLETIN BOARD and other info

• Feel free to post questions etc on the blackboard system of CMU
• Official CMU academic calendar
• url of this very web site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/dbms.S14/index.htm