Database Notes
Intro to Database assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to :
• Give evidence of your research skills o Use as many resources as you need o Attribute sources o Do not “copy and paste”! o Read and re-write in your own words
• Allow critical analysis of your current report/essay writing skills
• Identify areas where improvement may be advisable
• Give you a better grasp of databases as a an area of study
• Allow you to research /work collaboratively but still submit a unique piece of work
Topics to be included
Introduction
• Give brief intro giving the purpose of the report
Data v Information
• Mankind has always had a need to store information.
• Why? Where? How?
• Cave painting through Egyptian hieroglyphics to illuminated manuscripts of the Middles Ages in Latin to modern newspapers and magazine and in the 25 years online news websites and electronic repository’s (databases)
Reasons why organisations and individuals want information
• Governments
• Commercial
• Military
• etc
Electronic Storage
• 1940/50 beginnings
• Development in storage media
• Comparative development with computer development
Flat file
• What, when, difficulties
Relational databases
• Dr Codd et al
• How does it work?
• Tables
• Keys
• Primary, foreign, compound etc
Object Oriented Database Design
• Still relational but..
• Why need of? What stored
Future developments???
Conclusion Keep it brief
Please feel free to add any additional topics you want to include; use the above as a guide!
1. Within an IT support help desk environment, describe the role of ITIL standards in the provision of quality IT service management.
2. The areas in which professional institutions operate extend beyond simply representing their members. Discuss briefly two examples of this.
3. Depending upon your job role within an organisation, certain professional institutions may be more suitable to support you. Identify two roles and
The purpose of this assignment is to :
• Give evidence of your research skills o Use as many resources as you need o Attribute sources o Do not “copy and paste”! o Read and re-write in your own words
• Allow critical analysis of your current report/essay writing skills
• Identify areas where improvement may be advisable
• Give you a better grasp of databases as a an area of study
• Allow you to research /work collaboratively but still submit a unique piece of work
Topics to be included
Introduction
• Give brief intro giving the purpose of the report
Data v Information
• Mankind has always had a need to store information.
• Why? Where? How?
• Cave painting through Egyptian hieroglyphics to illuminated manuscripts of the Middles Ages in Latin to modern newspapers and magazine and in the 25 years online news websites and electronic repository’s (databases)
Reasons why organisations and individuals want information
• Governments
• Commercial
• Military
• etc
Electronic Storage
• 1940/50 beginnings
• Development in storage media
• Comparative development with computer development
Flat file
• What, when, difficulties
Relational databases
• Dr Codd et al
• How does it work?
• Tables
• Keys
• Primary, foreign, compound etc
Object Oriented Database Design
• Still relational but..
• Why need of? What stored
Future developments???
Conclusion Keep it brief
Please feel free to add any additional topics you want to include; use the above as a guide!
1. Within an IT support help desk environment, describe the role of ITIL standards in the provision of quality IT service management.
2. The areas in which professional institutions operate extend beyond simply representing their members. Discuss briefly two examples of this.
3. Depending upon your job role within an organisation, certain professional institutions may be more suitable to support you. Identify two roles and