6.830/6.814 Schedule and Readings
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| Sept 7 Labor Day Holiday |
Sept 8 Reg. Day No class |
Sept 9 | Sept 10
Introduction Lecture 1 |
Sept 11 |
| Sept 14 | Sept 15
The Relational Model Lecture 2 PS1 Out |
Sept 16 | Sept 17
Schema Normalization Lecture 3 |
Sept 18 |
| Sept 21 | Sept 22
Intro. to Database Internals Lecture 4 PS1 Due Lab 1 Out |
Sept 23 | Sept 24
Database Operators and Query Processing Lecture 5 PS2 Out |
Sept 25 |
| Sept 28 |
Sept 29 Indexing and Access Methods Lecture 6 Project Teams Due |
Sept 30 | Oct 1 Buffer Pool Design and Memory Management Lecture 7 Lab 2 Out |
Oct 2 Lab 1 Due |
| Oct 5 | Oct 6 Join Algortithms Lecture 8 |
Oct 7 | Oct 8 Query Optimization Lecture 9 |
Oct 9 Add Date |
| Oct 12
Columbus Day Holiday |
Oct 13
Monday schedule No Class |
Oct 14 | Oct 15
Transactions and Locking Lecture 10 Project Proposals Due Lab 2 Due Lab 3 Out |
Oct 16 |
| Oct 19 | Oct 20
Optimistic Concurrency Control Lecture 11 PS2 Due |
Oct 21 | Oct 22
Exam 1 Sample Quiz | Solns |
Oct 23 |
| Oct 26 | Oct 27
Recovery Lecture 12 |
Oct 28 | Oct 29
Recovery, Cont. Lecture 13 Lab 4 Out (6.814 only) Lab 3 Due |
Oct 30 |
| Nov 2 | Nov 3
Degrees of Consistency Lecture 14 PS3 Out |
Nov 4 | Nov 5
C-Store Lecture 15 |
Nov 6 |
| Nov 9 | Nov 10
Parallel Databases <Lecture 16 |
Nov 11 Veterans Day Holiday |
Nov 12
Distributed Transactions Lecture 17 |
Nov 13 |
| Nov 16 |
Nov 17
Replication |
Nov 18 Drop Date |
Nov 19
Stream Processing Lab 5 Out (6.814 only) Lab 4 Due (6.814 only) |
Nov 20 |
| Nov 23 | Nov 24
Search Engines |
Nov 25 | Nov 26
Thanksgiving Holiday No Class |
Nov 27 |
| Nov 30 | Dec 1 Google BigTable PS3 Due |
Dec 2 | Dec 3
Exam 2 |
Dec 4 |
| Dec 7 | Dec 8
TBD |
Dec 9 | Dec 10
Final Project Presentations Final projects due (6.830) Lab 5 Due (6.814) Last Day of Classes |
Dec 11 |
Last change: 9/9/2009.