| Week | Date (Day) | Topics |
| -1 | Jan 23 (R) | Basics (Ch 1-3: Intro, ER-model, and Relational Model) |
| 0 | Jan 30 (R) | Relational Queries (Ch 4-6: Relational Algebra, Calculus, SQL, and QBE) |
| 1 | Feb 6 (R) | Disks, Files, and Overview of Indexes (Ch 7-8) |
| 2 | Feb 13 (R) | Indexing (Ch 9-10) |
| 3 | Feb 20 (R) | External Sorting and Evaluation of Relational Operators (Ch 11-12) |
| 4 | Feb 27 (R) | Query Optimization (Ch 13-14) |
| 5 | Mar 6 (R) | Schema Refinement and Normal Forms (Ch 15) |
| 6 | Mar 13 (R) | Physical Database Design and Tuning, and Database Security (Ch 16-17) | 7 | Mar 20 (R) | Transactional Management and Concurrency Control (1) (Ch 18-19.2) |
| 8 | Mar 27 (R) | Concurrency Control (2) and Recovery (Ch 19.3-20) |
| 9 | Apr 3 (R) | Parallel and Distributed Databases (Ch 21) |
| 10 | Apr 10 (R) | Internet Databases (Ch 22) |
| 11 | Apr 17 (R) | Decision Support (Ch 23) |
| 12 | Apr 24 (R) | Data Mining (Ch 24) |
| 13 | May 1 (R) | Object-Database Systems (Ch 25) |
| 14 | May 8 (R) | Spatial Databases and Deductive Databases (Ch 26-27) |
| 15 | May 15 (R) | Additional Topics (Ch 28) |