Topics

1. Database Management Systems: case studies. Oracle, Access, etc..
2. Oracle, Data Bases, and HTML links.

Platforms, software

1. Access under W-95
2. Oracle under W-NT

Today

1. Motivation: why Databases?
2. Motivation: why Database Management Systems?
3. Motivation: why put databases on the web? why Java?
4. Topics
5. An example to start with: an Access database for keeping grades for a class.

Reading

1. Chapter 1 textbook