Database Management Systems Tutorial Week 1 Weight 1% . . ASSESSABLE TASKS OF THE WEEK 1. Investigate data and information Data is collected about individuals and groups by a large number of organisations and in a variety of ways. a) Form a group of approximately four students and discuss the organisation that is allocated to you by your tutor. b) Fill in the following table as you discuss what data is collected by the different organisation types‚ and how this data is used
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Volume 9‚ 2010 Database Security: What Students Need to Know Meg Coffin Murray Kennesaw State University‚ Kennesaw‚ GA‚ USA mcmurray@kennesaw.edu Executive Summary Database security is a growing concern evidenced by an increase in the number of reported incidents of loss of or unauthorized exposure to sensitive data. As the amount of data collected‚ retained and shared electronically expands‚ so does the need to understand database security. The Defense Information Systems Agency of the US
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images‚ voices and movies. The huge amount of data in different multimedia applications deserved to have the databases since the databases could provide consistency‚ integrity‚ security and availability of the data. From the user perspective‚ databases offer functionality for easy manipulation‚ query‚ and retrieval of relevant information from huge collections of stored data. Multimedia databases have to cope up with the increasing usage of large volume of multimedia data used in various software applications
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Part 1 Background Chapter 1 Introduction to Databases 1.1 A database management system provides a number of facilities that will vary from system to system. Describe the type of facilities you might expect‚ especially those that aid the initial implementation of a database and its subsequent administration. Initially‚ the type of facilities expected should be described. These include: data storage and retrieval‚ concurrency control mechanism‚ authorization services‚ integrity mechanisms
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Review Questions 6. What is an entity? Something about which we want to store data. 7. What is business logic? The set of rules that govern an organizations processes. 8. What is a relational database? A data base that organizes data into overlapping tables. They follow a set of very specific rules that ensure data contained in the database will be consistent. 9. How do the following terms relate to one another: record‚ table‚ field‚ primary key? Rows are called records
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with the system operating in a hospital environment. It looks into how patients’ records are being managed in most Nigerian hospitals. It considers St. Andrews Hospital Lagos as a case study. It looks into the problems occurring within the hospital especially as it pertain to managing patients’ record‚ diagnosis‚ prescription details etc. Solution is offered to overcome these problems using hospital management system software. This report outlines the design of the hospital management system and the
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1 Introduction Database is any collection of data or information‚ that is specially organized for rapid search and retrieval by a computer. Databases are structured to facilitate the storage‚ retrieval‚ modification‚ and deletion of data in conjunction with various data-processing operations. A database consists of a file or a set of files. The information in these files may be broken down into records‚ each of which consists of one or more fields. Fields are the basic units of data storage
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SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION(SRS) FOR AIRLINE DATABASE Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Purpose 1.2 Document Conventions 1.3 Intended Audience and Reading Suggestions 1.4 Project Scope 1.5 References 2. Overall Description 2.1 Product Perspective 2.2 Product Features 2.3 User Classes and Characteristics 2.4 Operating Environment 2.5 Design and Implementation Constraints 2.6 Assumptions and Dependencies 3. System Features 4. External Interface Requirements 4.1 User Interfaces 4.2 Hardware
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naming a few of the most important concepts in relational database design. A basic understanding of these will be required to understand the rest of the article. * Primary Key (PK) A column with a unique value for each row. Although not all database management systems (DBMS) require you to put a PK into each table‚ from a design perspective a PK is a requirement. No table should be without one. * Foreign Key (FK) These define relationships between tables. When you want a row in one table to
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to Any Database Avirup Sil∗ Temple University Philadelphia‚ PA avi@temple.edu Yinfei Yang St. Joseph’s University Philadelphia‚ PA yangyin7@gmail.com Abstract Existing techniques for disambiguating named entities in text mostly focus on Wikipedia as a target catalog of entities. Yet for many types of entities‚ such as restaurants and cult movies‚ relational databases exist that contain far more extensive information than Wikipedia. This paper introduces a new task‚ called Open-Database Named-Entity
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