General Requirements This section contains information about the general requirements that your assignment must meet. Please read all requirements carefully before you start.  The “Database Systems”...

General Requirements
This section contains information about the general requirements that your assignment must
meet. Please read all requirements carefully before you start.
 The “Database Systems” blackboard contains further announcements and a list of frequently
asked questions. You are expected to check the discussion board on daily basis.
Login through http://my.rmit.edu.au.
 Your database and Java programs must be set up and run on your AWS linux machine
using the same data as in assignment 1.
 As some tasks require timing you should use the same AWS linux machine for all tasks.
 You must implement your program changes in Java. Your program changes must be well
written, using good coding style and including appropriate use of comments (that clearly
identify the changes you are making to the code). Your markers will look at your source
code. Coding style will form part of the assessment of this assignment.
 Any code you submit must be able to be built using the command ant on an AWS linux
instance. If your marker cannot compile your programs, you risk yielding zero marks for
the coding component of your assignment.
 Your program may be developed on any machine, but must compile and run your AWS
linux instance.
 You must use git as you develop your code (wherever you do the development). As you
work on the assignment you should commit your changes to git regularly (for example,
hourly or each time you rebuild) as the log may be used as evidence of your progress.
 Paths must not be hard-coded.
 Diagnostic messages must be output to stderr.
 Parts of this assignment will ask you to analyse your results, and to write about your
conclusions in a report. Your report must be a PDF file, called REPORTyyyyyyy.pdf
where yyyyyyy is your student number. Files that do not meet this requirement may not
be marked.
 Your report must be well-written. Poorly written or hard to read reports will receive
substantially lower marks. Your report should be appropriate to submit in a professional
environment (such as including in a portfolio of your work for a prospective employer).
The RMIT Study & Learning Centre employs advisors to help you improve your writing.
For details, see http://www.rmit.edu.au/studyandlearningcentre.
 All sections of this assignment are expected to show that you have thought about the problem.
The most basic structuring of data and analysis will get the most basic mark.
 Take care to repeat timings in a consistent way, so that you can make fair comparisons.
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 Depending on your implementation, you may wish to provide additional information about
your code (for example, how it is to be compiled and run). If so, put this information into
a plain text file called readme.txt.
 Important: You must run all your experiments on your AWS linux instance.
Questions about assignment
If you have any questions about the assignment (for example to clarify requirements):
1. Please first check this assignment specification, as well the announcements and the discussion
board to see if it has already been answered.
2. If it has NOT already been answered and does NOT include your own code (including
database queries), please post your question on the discussion board.
3. Otherwise, if your question involves your own code (or is about your personal situation)
then discuss it in your practical class with the lab instructor or contact the lecturer (or your
tutor) via email.