Please note: all associated databases for the course are in the tools section. Any references to ‘Athena’ refer to MIT’s campus-wide, UNIX based computing environment.
Lecture 1 - Introduction: Planners and Data (PDF)
- The Marriage: Planners & Data (PDF)
Lecture 2 - Relational Database Management (PDF)
- PARCELS database (Please see the tools section.)
- SQL Notes (Please see the tools section.)
- Lab 1 (PDF)
- SQL Help Notes (PDF)
- PARCELS sample database (PDF)
Lecture 3 - Handling One to Many Relations (PDF)
- PARCELS Database (Please see the tools section.)
- SQL Notes (Please see the tools section.)
- Lab 1 (PDF)
- PARCELS sample database (PDF)
- URISA database (PDF)
Lecture 4 - Subqueries and Complex Joins (PDF)
- URISA database (PDF)
- SQL Notes (Please see the tools section.)
- Zoning Variance / Sub-Neighborhood lookup table (PDF)
- SQL examples using zoning variances (PDF)
- 1980 Census data / Schema of Decision, Use, NSA, Neighborhood Lookup Tables (by Boston NSA) (PDF)
- Grouping zoning applicants via ’lookup’ tables (PDF)
- Zoning Variance Database Evolution Chart (PDF)
Lecture 5 - Parcel Level City Databases (PDF)
- SQL Notes (Please see the tools section.)
- Zoning Variance data dictionary (PDF)
- SQL examples using zoning variances (PDF)
- Queries that we will run (PDF)
- PowerPoint slides (PDF)
- Grouping zoning applicants via ’lookup’ tables (PDF)
Lecture 6 - Zoning Variance Databases (PDF)
- Zoning Variance / Sub-Neighborhood lookup table (PDF)
- 1980 Census data / Schema of Decision, Use, NSA, Neighborhood Lookup Tables (by Boston NSA) (PDF)
- SQL examples using zoning variances (PDF)
- Grouping zoning applicants via ’lookup’ tables (PDF)
- Zoning Variance Database Evolution Chart (PDF)
- Additional class notes on outer joins (PDF)
- URISA database examples (PDF)
Lecture 7 - Referential Integrity (PDF)
Lecture 8 - Querying Oracle (PDF)
Lecture 9 - Database Design (PDF)
- Problem Set 3 (PDF)
- Schema Version I (PDF)
- Schema Version II (PDF)
- Schema Version III (PDF)
- Schema Version III-2 (PDF)
- Schema Version III-3 (PDF)
- Schema Version IV (PDF)
- create.sql (PDF)
- insert.sql (PDF)
Lecture 10 - Lab 5 (PDF)
Lecture 11 - Practice Exam (PDF)
Lecture 12 - Lab 6 (PDF)
Lecture 13 - Wrap up of Modeling (PDF)