CS542. Database Systems

Introductory Material on Sets, Relations and Functions can be found here.
Another introduction to set theory can be found here
DB at other universities
- Stanford
- Wisconsin
ER Model
- The original paper that introduced ER in 1976 can be obtained here
- A write-up by Murali giving mathematical definitions of ER concepts, as well as some extensions are available here.
Resources on Oracle and mySQL DBMS.
- Oracle Documentation is available here
- MySQL Documentation is available here

With reference to the project

Reference on HTML Forms
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp
Handout on Perl/CGI, and how to use Perl DBI with Oracle/mySQL ps pdf
Code for the above can be found at: http://www.wpi.edu/~mmani/perlSamples

Simple tutorial on Perl: http://www.tizag.com/perlT/index.php
Simple user authentication mechanisms using Perl and examples can be found here. ps pdf
Handout on JDBC ps pdf
Introduction to JDBC with Oracle from Stanford can be found here

Embedded SQL