Suppose a local college has tasked you to develop a database that will keep
track of students and the courses that they have taken. In addition to tracking
the students and courses, the client wants the database to keep track of the
instructors teaching each of the courses.
Use the internet to research the types of information that a college would
want to track in a database. Focus your attention on information that could
represent entities within a database as well as attributes of such entities.
Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:
1.
Describe the
purpose of the database.
2.
Based on your
research and / or common knowledge of a college and the information tracked by
a college, describe the entities of the database and the attributes of each
entity.
3.
Based on your
research and / or common knowledge of a college and the information tracked by
a college, describe the business rules that could impact the structure of the
database.
4.
Determine the
information that the conceptual model of the database would include and
determine the information that the physical model of the database would
include.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
·
Be typed, double
spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all
sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format.
Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
·
Include a cover
page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the
professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the
reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
·
Describe the
role of databases and database management systems in managing organizational
data and information.
·
Compose
conceptual data modeling techniques to capture the information requirements.
·
Use technology
and information resources to research issues in database systems.
·
Write clearly
and concisely about relational database management systems using proper writing
mechanics and technical style conventions.
