Faculty member(s) proposing change: Peixiang Zhao 

Other Faculty involved in teaching this course or who have particular 
interest in its contents: Daniel Schwartz and Sonia Haiduc 

Course Information:
 	Course Number: COP 4710 
 	Course Title:  Database Systems 

Current Textbook Information
 	Title: Database Management Systems 
 	Author: Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke
 	Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2002 
 	Date Published: 2002
 	URL:  http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~dbbook/
 	ISBN#: 978-0072465631

Porposed new textbook information
 	Title: Database Systems: The Complete Book
 	Author: Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeff Ullman, Jennifer Widom 
 	Publisher: Prentice Hall
 	Date Published: 2008
 	URL:  http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/dscb.html
 	ISBN#: 978-0131873254 

Motivation:
Please discuss the reasons for proposing the new textbook. Describe what 
aspects of the current book you find unsuitable. Describe what aspects of 
the new book will improve the course, comparing the current textbook with 
the proposed text.

The current textbook is in its third edition and was published in 2003. It has not
been updated ever since. Some notions and diagrams are outdated and explanations
in some sections are not clear, especially to students. Many students have complained
to me about the textbook in the past two years.

The new book I plan to adopt is fairly new (2nd edition, published in 2008) and
includes both the classic materials and the new trends of relation database systems.
This textbook is very clearly written with lot of examples, and thus it has
been widely used in many universities, such as Stanford, Columbia and Duke. I have
used this book for the course COP5725: Advanced Database Systems and got
many positive feedback from students.


-- 
Peixiang Zhao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~zhao/
Tel: 850-645-0346