Class Materials

• See syllabus in Canvas
• Class Schedule - Graduate Spring 2025
• Software to download
• Slides
• Exercises
• Videos
• INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
  - a module for Advanced Computing Technologies (ACT!)
• MySQL practice 
  • SQL Zoo
  • SQL Zoo (AdventureWorks)
  • Hacker Rank
  • SQL Bolt
  • W3 resource
  • W3 Resource (AdventureWorks)
  • AdventureWorks Basic SQL
  • AdventureWorks SQL Joins
  • AdventureWorks SQL Aggregation
  • AdventureWorks Subqueries
• Files (e.g., schema creation scripts, Access databases)
• Handouts
• Rubrics
• Sakila Web or AdventureWorks web (PHP examples)
• Sakila AJAX
• Solutions

References

• Materials for class
• Various ER diagram formats
• My database YouTube channel
• Variations in SQL (MySQL vs SQLite vs Postgres)

Available Databases

• AdventureWorks - complex business DB from Microsoft (2005)
  • AdventureWorks 2005 Schema
    (Use [Ctrl +] to zoom in and [Ctrl -] to zoom out)
  • AdventureWorks Data Dictionary for field definition & usage
• Chinook - a music DB that is the sample for SQLite [schema]
• Sakila - the movie database that comes with MySQL
• NOAA - water data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Center in Influx [description]
• Northwind - simpler business DB from Microsoft (2010) [schema]
• Northwind on Neo4j - suppliers, products and categories [schema]
• Nwind - very basic version of Northwind (circa 2003) [schema]
• Murach - the databases from the Murach MySQL textbook
  • ap (accounts payable)
  • om (order management)
  • ex (examples)
  • note: ap and om have been merged into a database called "murach"; ex not recreated as it was repetitive with ap and om.
• SampDB - sample database from O'Reilly
• enron.email and alternative enron.email2- JSON dataset for Mongo/Elasticsearch with Enron emails. Background and information about the dataset. Its use in data science.
• sakila.films, sakila.profiles - MongoDB representation of Sakila

MySQL Manual

• MANUAL HOME
• MySQL WorkBench
• Regular Expressions

• String functions
• Numeric functions
• Date/Time functions
• Control Flow functions
• Spatial functions

• String data types
• Numeric data types
• Date/Time data types
• Spatial data types (tie in to GIS)

• MySQL as NoSQL

Neo4j Manual

• Full manual (current version)
• Chapter 3 - Cypher
• org.neo4j.driver Javadoc

Oracle Documentation

• Oracle Spatial geometry explained
• Procedures and Functions - Oracle vs. MySQL

Mongo / Mongolite Manuals

• Full Mongolite (for R) manual (current version)
• MongoDB the Definitive Guide

SQLAlchemy Manual

• Full manual (current version)

Connectivity

• Connections to the MongoDB or the elvis server must be through Rowan's network. For remote users, connect to Citrix (applications.rowan.edu) and then use PuTTy from there for command line access or use MySQL Workbench (under Developer folder).