Yearly Archives: 2022

Specialist Database Presentation   Determine how spatial components can be used in the database your team created in Week Two.   Create an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) with spatial components. Use Microsoft Visio to create this diagram.   Include a minimum of two spatial components from the list below:   Longitude/Latitude   Polygon   Points […]

Data Warehouse Project, Part II   Includes 5 Long Answers to Discussion Question   Use the credit card database from the Week One Individual assignment, “Data Warehouse Project, Part I,” as a basis for the creation of a data warehouse.   Complete the following steps:   Define the business requirements, objectives, and deliverables.   Declare […]

Specialist Database Presentation   Your team is tasked with creating an inventory price-tracking database for a company of your choosing.   Complete the following steps in Microsoft® SQL Server® 2016:   Create a table. This table will tell you what price the inventory item started at, what it currently is, and what it ends at. […]

Complete the following using Microsoft SQL Server 2016:   Write SQL scripts in Microsoft SQL Server for OLTP that include:   A Data Definition Language (DDL) script creating the four tables with appropriate data types, primary and foreign keys   Data Manipulation Language (DML) scripts that insert a minimum of five records into each table […]

General vs. Special-Purpose Databases   Includes 5 Long Answers to Discussion Question   Identify a general purpose and a special purpose database of your choice. Research and compare the general and special purpose databases that you have selected. Describe differences between the two databases.       DBM384 Special Purpose Databases   Week 2 Discussion […]

Strengths and Weaknesses of Info Retrieval   Includes 5 Long Answers to Discussion Question   Select a website from the Internet that provides information to its stakeholders; examples of websites to consider are SEC.gov or USA.gov. Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the information retrieval processes used on this website from an end-user perspective.

NoSQL Includes 5 Long Answers to Discussion Question   A mid-sized financial services company is considering implementing a NoSQL database. From the perspective of an IT Manager in this financial services company, describe how NoSQL databases could be used in the organization. Under what circumstances might it be an appropriate implementation choice for a financial […]

Spatial Database Indexing   Includes 5 Long Answers to Discussion Question   Part of a Database Administrator’s job is to ensure appropriate information retrieval performance of their databases. End users do not and in many cases can’t wait for databases that perform slowly. This is true for many spatial databases. Consider Google Maps and the […]

OLTP and OLAP Organizations use database technology to store data that they collect, analyze, measure, and monitor as they conduct business. Data that is captured during transactional processes, as organizations sell products and services to their customers, is best structured in an OLTP database. Data that is used to analyze trends, key metrics, summary data, […]