Databases Team B ACC/340 June 13‚ 2011 Richard Calabria Databases In today’s business society‚ technologies such as databases are a vital part of just about every major retail business including the Riordan’s organization. Many people overlook the importance of the role of databases in business because they are integrated so well. Databases definitely affect the output part of the accounting cycle because it includes company’s financial data and other external reports that
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....................................................................3 1.2 Scope of the database ....................................................................................................................................3 2 Entity-Relationship Diagram ..............................................................................................................................4 3 Relational Database Schema ................................................................................
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College of Business Hospitality & Tourism Studies Department of Computer Science & Information System CIN623 Database Design & Programming Final Examination Trimester 1 – 2011 Date: Duration:3 hours plus 10 minutes INSTRUCTION TO STUDENTS 1. You are allowed ten minutes extra reading time during which you are not to write 2. Write all answers to each question in the Answer Booklet. 3. Write your Student ID number at the top of each attached sheet. 4. Insert all written foolscaps in their correct sequence
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of the database applications. 2. What is the role of the database in the IS generic architecture? 3. What is file-based system? Give 2 examples of FBS. 4. What are main limitations of FBS? 5. What is database? 6. What does it mean that database is self-describing collection of interrelated records? 7. What does it mean that data is integrated? 8. What does it mean that database is collection of logically related data? 9. What is DBMS? 10. What are the main categories of database languages
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Database: specialized structures that allow computer-based systems to store‚ manage‚ and retrieve data very quickly. Data are raw facts. Information is the result of processing raw data to reveal its meaning. To reveal meaning‚ information requires context. Raw data must be properly formatted for storage Data constitute the building blocks of information. Information is produced by processing data. Information is used to reveal the meaning of data. Accurate‚ relevant‚ and timely information
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NORMALIZATION OF DATABASE NORMALIZATION- is the process for evaluating and correcting table structures to minimize data redundancies‚ thereby‚ reducing the livelihood of data anomalies. The normalization process involves assigning attributes to tables based on the concept of determination. Normalization works through a series of stages called normal forms. 3 Stages of Normalization 1. 1NF or FIRST NORMALIZATION FORM 2. 2NF or SECOND NORMALIZATION FORM 3. 3NF or THIRED NORMALIZATION
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[pic] CONTENT 1. To start with 2. Database Marketing a. Consumer Data b. Business Data 3. Difference between direct marketing and database marketing 4. Why database marketing is increasing so rapidly? a. Greater use of market segmentation b. Emphasis on service and customer relationship management c. Changes in media d. Changes in distribution structure and power e. Lifestyle and demographic trends
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ISM 6215 - Business Database Systems I Fall 2013 Home Work – 1 (Marks 100) Question 1 - Contrast the following terms. Give one example of each 1. Degree versus cardinality of relationship 2. Required versus optional attributes 3. Data dependence versus data independence 4. Structured versus unstructured data (4*2.5 =10 marks) Answer 1 - Degree; cardinality. The degree (of a relationship) is the number of entity types that participate in that relationship‚ while cardinality is a
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The Three Tenets of Object-Oriented Programming Languages According to Bjarne Stroustrup‚ author of the C++ programming language‚ for a language to call itself object-oriented‚ it must support three concepts: objects‚ classes‚ and inheritance. However‚ object-oriented languages have come to be more commonly thought of as those languages built on the tripod of encapsulation‚ inheritance‚ and polymorphism. The reason for this shift in philosophy is that over the years we’ve come to realize that encapsulation
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What is a database? * A database is a structured collection of data. The data is typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality (for example‚ the availability of rooms in hotels)‚ in a way that supports processes requiring this information (for example‚ finding a hotel with vacancies). * The term database is correctly applied to the data and their supporting data structures‚ and not to the database management system (DBMS). The database data collection
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