6.830/6.814 lectures are in 32-155 at 2:30pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.
We will release the Spring 2012 assignments as the semester moves along. The contents of this calendar for days more than two weeks in the future may be missing. Feel free to see last year's schedule to get an idea of what is to come, but be aware that the details are likely to change.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| feb 6 Reg day |
feb 7 First day of classes |
feb 8 LEC 1: Introduction to Databases | feb 9 | feb 10 |
| feb 13 LEC 2: The Relational Model Reading Assignment Assigned: PS 1 |
feb 14 | feb 15 LEC 3: Schema Design Reading Assignment |
feb 16 | feb 17 |
| feb 20 President's day |
feb 21
Monday schedule LEC 4: Introduction to Database Internals Reading Assignment Due: PS 1 Assigned: Lab 1 | feb 22 LEC 5: Database Operators and Query Processing Reading Assignment | feb 23 | feb 24 |
| feb 27 LEC 6: Indexing and Access Methods Reading Assignment Due: Final Project Teams (6.830 Only) Assigned: PS 2 |
feb 28 | feb 29 LEC 7: Buffer Pool Design and Memory Management Reading Assignment | mar 1 | mar 2 Due: Lab 1 Assigned: Lab 2 |
| mar 5 LEC 8: Join Algorithms Reading Assignment | mar 6 | mar 7 LEC 9: Query Optimization Reading Assignment | mar 8 | mar 9 ADD DATE |
| mar 12 LEC 10: Transactions And Locking Reading Assignment | mar 13 | mar 14 LEC 11: Optimistic Concurrency Control and Snapshot Isolation Reading Assignment Due: Final Project Proposals (6.830 Only) |
mar 15 | mar 16 Due: Lab 2 |
| mar 19 LEC 12: Column Stores Reading Assignment Due: PS2 |
mar 20 | mar 21 Quiz 1 |
mar 22 Assigned: Lab 3 |
mar 23 |
| mar 26 Spring break |
mar 27 Spring break |
mar 28 Spring break |
mar 29 Spring break |
mar 30 Spring break |
| apr 2 LEC 13: Recovery Reading Assignment
| apr 3 | apr 4 LEC 14: Recovery (cont.) Reading Assignment Assigned: PS3 |
apr 5 | apr 6 |
| apr 9 LEC 15: Distributed Databases Reading Assignment Due: Lab 3 |
apr 10 | apr 11 LEC 16:Distributed Transactions Reading Assignment Assigned: Lab 4 (6.814 Only) |
apr 12 | apr 13 |
| apr 16 Patriots day |
apr 17 Patriots day |
apr 18 LEC 17: Search Engines and Map Reduce Reading Assignment
| apr 19 | apr 20 |
| apr 23 LEC 18: Hadoop and Pig! Reading Assignment
| apr 24 | apr 25 LEC 19: Relaxed Consistency and NoSQL Reading Assignment
| apr 26 | apr 27 |
| apr 30 LEC 20: Big Table Reading Assignment Due: Lab 4 (6.814 Only) |
may 1 | may 2 LEC 21: The Case for Determinism Reading Assignment Assigned: Lab 5 (6.814 Only) |
may 3 | may 4 |
| may 7 LEC 22: Stream Processing Reading Assignment Due: PS3 |
may 8 | may 9 Quiz 2 | may 10 | may 11 |
| may 14 LEC 23: No reading. Lecture on future of database systems. | may 15 | may 16 Final Project Presentations | may 17 Last day of classes Due: Lab 5 (6.814 Only) Due: Final Project Reports (6.830 Only) |
may 18 |
| may 21 Final exam week |
may 22 Final exam week |
may 23 Final exam week |
may 24 Final exam week |
may 25 Final exam week |
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Questions or comments regarding 6.830/6.814? Send e-mail to the 6.830/6.814 staff at 6.830-staff at mit.edu. |