DBM380 Database Environment Paper Week2

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Database Environment Paper 1

Database Environment Paper

Nicholas Fletcher

DBM/380

07/06/2014

James Johnsen


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Database Environment Paper

After 45 minutes of walking through the cummers museum and realizing that

Jacksonville is home to four beautiful museums. These museums will not only captivate you but

also tell you a story in history. By understanding this I walk through the commer museum in

amazement but being from a IT background my mind soon begin to wonder how do they keep

track all of these beautiful works of art. I mean there's things that have to be taken into

consideration. In example who is the artist, the location where the art is display, can it be or is iton loan, the year the artist created the artwork. After thinking about this for a few minutes a

database popped in to my mind. A database management system can easily do all of these things

and more. A museum can choose a variety of databases to complete this task but just for

explanation purposes we're going to use Microsoft access to help us understand how a database

can complete the task of tracking the artwork and giving us an accurate account and location.

Let's keep in mind while we are designing and building the database three words; real,

conceptual, and representations if we keep these three keywords at the forefront of our design we

will design a usable and efficient database. Simply put the design of a database is to define the

structure of data that can be queried and give out meaningful information to the end-user. And

will design database also allows for easy maintenance and upkeep. With over 5000 works of arts

in the cummers museum there's a lot of data that has to be enter into access on the front and

ongoing in order for the museum to be able to used the software. But in order to do this we must

first understand how the data or where the data is entered in Microsoft access. Data is stored in

what is called a tables, each table consists of data about a specific subject in example; painters


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name, date art was created, location ,Address, zip code, city. By putting data in a table that is

specific it allows for changing of data in specific table and it will automatically populating

throughout the whole database. This also allows for different types of queriers making the

database efficient. Let also look at what is a query. A query is a search by the end users which

displays usable information. A query can sometimes and most time often will also display

subsets of data as well. The subsets of the table is referred to as A field or as an attribute. To

understand this a little better you can think about the squares in Microsoft excel those squares are

fields and/or attributes is a place with database tables used to store one piece of given data. When

entering data into a table or A field is called an entry. An entry is data that needs to be tracked. Now the question how can all of this information help the museum track there artwork. When

billing the initial database you can one can use the artwork name as the interest in the fields or

attributes can be the artist name the date the artist created the piece of artwork artwork that

exactly where the artwork is located inside the singing is the artwork being load out or is it all

from another museum what does the museum that peace of artwork. After entering all of the

fields and tables we can then run a ERD report to help us see how the database is coming along

by doing so were able to see from it overview what tables relate to what and in sure that all of the

tables that need to talk to each other are doing so. It is easy to see if you museum created a

database as explained above that you can effortlessly track each keys of work.


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