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 LESSON #1

The Database
Environment and
Development
Processes

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• Define Terms.
• Name limitations of conventional file processing
• Explain advantages of databases
• Identify costs and risks of databases
• List components of database environment

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• Identify categories of database applications
• Describe database system development life cycle
• Explain prototyping and agile development
approaches
• Explain roles of individuals
• Explain the three-schema architecture for databases

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• Database: organized collection of logically related data
• Data: stored representations of meaningful objects and
events
• Structured: numbers, text, dates
• Unstructured: images, video, documents
• Information: data processed to increase knowledge in the
person using the data
• Metadata: data that describes the properties and context
of user data

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 Context helps users understand data

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 Graphical displays turn data into useful
information that managers can use for
decision making and interpretation
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 Descriptions of the properties or characteristics of the
data, including data types, field sizes, allowable
values, and data context
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• Program-Data Dependence
• All programs maintain metadata for each file they use
• Duplication of Data
• Different systems/programs have separate copies of the same data
• Limited Data Sharing
• No centralized control of data
• Lengthy Development Times
• Programmers must design their own file formats
• Excessive Program Maintenance
• 80% of information systems budget

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• Each application programmer must maintain
his/her own data
• Each application program needs to include code
for the metadata of each file
• Each application program must have its own
processing routines for reading, inserting,
updating, and deleting data
• Lack of coordination and central control
• Non-standard file formats

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 Duplicate Data

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• Waste of space to have duplicate data
• Causes more maintenance headaches
• The biggest problem:
–Data changes in one file could cause inconsistencies
–Compromises in data integrity

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• Central repository of shared data
• Data is managed by a controlling agent
• Stored in a standardized, convenient form

Requires a Database Management System (DBMS)

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• Central repository of shared data
• Data is managed by a controlling agent
• Stored in a standardized, convenient form

Requires a Database Management System (DBMS)

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• A software system that is used to create, maintain,
and provide controlled access to user databases

Order Filing
System

Invoicing Central database

DBMS
System
Contains employee,
order, inventory,
pricing, and
Payroll
customer data
System

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• Program-data independence
• Planned data redundancy
• Improved data consistency
• Improved data sharing
• Increased application development productivity
• Enforcement of standards
• Improved data quality
• Improved data accessibility and responsiveness
• Reduced program maintenance
• Improved decision support
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• New, specialized personnel
• Installation and management cost and complexity
• Conversion costs
• Need for explicit backup and recovery
• Organizational conflict

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• Data models
– Graphical system capturing nature and relationship of data
– Enterprise Data Model–high-level entities and relationships for the organization
– Project Data Model–more detailed view, matching data structure in database or data warehouse
• Entities
– Noun form describing a person, place, object, event, or concept
– Composed of attributes
• Relationships
– Between entities
– Usually one-to-many (1:M) or many-to-many (M:N)
• Relational Databases
– Database technology involving tables (relations) representing entities and primary/foreign keys
representing relationships

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 Figure 1-5 Components of the Database Environment

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• CASE Tools–computer-aided software engineering
• Repository–centralized storehouse of metadata
• Database Management System (DBMS) –software for managing the database
• Database–storehouse of the data
• Application Programs–software using the data
• User Interface–text and graphical displays to users
• Data/Database Administrators–personnel responsible for maintaining the
database
• System Developers–personnel responsible for designing databases and
software
• End Users–people who use the applications and databases

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• SDLC
– System Development Life Cycle
– Detailed, well-planned development process
– Time-consuming, but comprehensive
– Long development cycle
• Prototyping
– Rapid application development (RAD)
– Cursory attempt at conceptual data modeling
– Define database during development of initial prototype
– Repeat implementation and maintenance activities with new prototype versions

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Planning

Analysis

Logical Design

Physical Design

Implementation

Maintenance

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Planning
Planning Purpose–preliminary understanding
Deliverable–request for study
Analysis

Logical Design

Physical Design

Database activity– Implementation

enterprise modeling and
early conceptual data
Maintenance
modeling

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 Purpose–thorough requirements analysis and
Planning structuring
Deliverable–functional system specifications
Analysis
Analysis

Logical Design

Physical Design

Database activity–thorough Implementation

and integrated conceptual
data modeling
Maintenance

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 Purpose–information requirements elicitation
Planning and structure
Deliverable–detailed design specifications
Analysis

Logical Design
Logical Design

Physical Design

Database activity– Implementation

logical database design
(transactions, forms,
Maintenance
displays, views, data
integrity and security)

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 Purpose–develop technology and
Planning organizational specifications

Analysis Deliverable–program/data
structures, technology purchases,
organization redesigns
Logical Design

Physical Design
Physical Design

Database activity– Implementation

physical database design (define
database to DBMS, physical
Maintenance
data organization, database
processing programs)

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 Purpose–programming, testing,
Planning training, installation, documenting

Analysis Deliverable–operational programs,

documentation, training materials
Logical Design

Physical Design

Database activity–
database implementation, Implementation
Implementation
including coded programs,
documentation, Maintenance
installation and conversion

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Planning Purpose–monitor, repair, enhance

Deliverable–periodic audits
Analysis

Logical Design

Physical Design

Database activity–
database maintenance, Implementation
performance analysis
and tuning, error Maintenance
Maintenance
corrections

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• External Schema
• User Views
• Subsets of Conceptual Schema
• Can be determined from business-function/data entity matrices
• DBA determines schema for different users
• Conceptual Schema
• E-R models
• Internal Schema
• Logical structures
• Physical structures

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 Different people
have different
views of the
database…these
are the external
schema

The internal
schema is the
underlying
design and
implementation

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• Project–a planned undertaking of related activities to
reach an objective that has a beginning and an end
• Initiated and planned in planning stage of SDLC
• Executed during analysis, design, and implementation
• Closed at the end of implementation

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 • Business analysts
• Systems analysts
• Database analysts and data modelers
• Data/Database administrators
• Project managers
• Users
• Programmers
• Other technical experts

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• Driven by four main objectives:
• Need for program-data independence  reduced
maintenance
• Desire to manage more complex data types and
structures
• Ease of data access for less technical personnel
• Need for more powerful decision support
platforms

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• Personal databases
• Two-tier and N-tier Client/Server databases
• Enterprise applications
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
• Data warehousing implementations

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• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Integrate all enterprise functions (manufacturing, finance,
sales, marketing, inventory, accounting, human
resources)
• Data Warehouse
• Integrated decision support system derived from various
operational databases

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Introduction to Programming
• Database is an organized collection of logically related
data.
• The approaches to data management are file
processing system and database management system.
• DBMS is a software system that is used to create,
maintain, and provide controlled access to user
databases.

Introduction to Programming
• Database applications can be arranged into the
following categories: personal, two-tire, multitier, and
enterprise databases.
• The systems development life cycle can be represented
by five methodical steps: (1) planning, (2) analysis, (3)
design, (4) implementation, and (5) maintenance.

Introduction to Programming
• Hoffer, J., Ramesh, V., Topi, H. (2013). Modern Database
Management 11th Edition, Prentice Hall.

Introduction to Programming