Welcome to Introduction to Databases. (Lightly) Read What Goes Around Comes Around by Stonebraker and Hellerstein By next week (1/11): Make sure you are signed up for the Piazza account Get Ubuntu 14.04+ running on bare metal or VM. Have the ability to install open source databases (psql and others). Install Java 1.7+ and refresh yourself on Java. Install git. Setup a github account. Learn GIT