IST 597

IST 597: Advanced Topics in Databases
Fall 2005 University Park

Section 1: taught by James Wang
Th 9:05AM-12:05PM 210 IST Building
( http://wang.ist.psu.edu )
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12/1 The final class will start at 10AM for the project presentations.
11/17 Talk slides are posted online under Schedule. If you have not emailed your PPT slides to me, please do so.
11/2 For the final project, each group should prepare a presentation of about 20 minutes on your part of the project. You can walk through examples of user access via the web interface of your project. It is important that you show all the functions provided, including those for database administrators. Finally, give a summarization of how you have divided the work load among group members. Write a 4-6 page, single-space, 12 point font final report on your project in HTML format. You may choose to write the report using other tools and convert to an HTML document. The report will be linked to the course Web site after the semester.

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Freeware:
With the following public-domain (free) software, you can easily set up a database application with a web interface. Applications on this class web page were all created using this software (on a UNIX server).

MySQL: a powerful freeware DB server (documentation)
PHP: a hypertext preprocessor (documentation)
Apache: a popular web server
putty.exe: a well-written SSH client for UNIX computers
DBI: a PERL interface library for databases
CGI-LIB: a PERL CGI library for web applications
OpenOffice: Free Office software on UNIX
Mambo: Free content managements system

2005 James Wang
School of Information Sciences and Technology
Penn State University

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