Course Information

• Instructor: Bongki Moon (bkmoon@cs.arizona.edu)
• office : Gould-Simpson 746, 621-4326(voice), 621-4246(fax)
• office hours : Tue 9:00-10:00, Wed 10:15-11:15, or by appointment.
• Grader: Rui Zhang (ruizhang@email.arizona.edu)
• Class schedule: M/W 9:00-10:15, Gould-Simpson 906
• Course Syllabus: for the 3ed textbook
• Class URL: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/classes/cs560/spring08
• Class Listserv: cs560@listserv.arizona.edu
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The MiniRel Project Schedule

Phase	Functional Layer	Due date
Part I	Paged File (PF) layer	N/A
Part II	Heap File (HF) Layer	Saturday of Week 5 (Feb/16/2008)
Part III	Access Method (AM) Layer	Saturday of Week 11 (Mar/29/2008)
Part IV	Front-End (FE) Layer	Saturday of Week 15 (Apr/26/2008)
Part V	Benchmarking	Saturday of Week 16 (May/03/2008)

News

• The midterm exam will be administered on March 12 (Wed) as planned. It will be a closed-book closed-note exam. Bring a blue book (aka a blue exam booklet) if you can. (I was asked about what kind of exam questions you should be prepared for. Generally speaking, the midterm or final exam will be comprised of essay writing and problem solving types of questions. But it will be safe to assume that (a lot) more questions will be of problem solving type.)

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