Title: Assignment 1 - Database Exploration
Course: KVCC BUS210 > Section: Assignments

This first assignment is to get you to begin thinking about the topic of databases and how they impact your life. I would like you to think on how you define and use databases. Answer the following questions:

1.      What is a database? Define this in your own terms?

2.      The following questions are on how you use databases in the listed situations:

a.      How do you use databases in your personal life:

i.     What kinds of databases do you use in this aspect of your life?

ii.     How does their use impact your life?

iii.     What would happen if you did not have access to these various databases?

iv.     What did you do before you used these databases to perform the same functions?

b.      Answer the same questions in relation to your professional life.

c.      How about your life as a student?

3.      Now that you have thought about how these data systems impact your life the next question becomes what are your goals for this class? The class will provide an overview of databases and how they can be managed. Answer the following questions:

4.      How do you think this knowledge will impact any of the areas you discussed in the previous question?

5.      What are your overall goals with this class/what do you want to take away?

6.      Finally, I want you to start thinking of designing a database. Answer the following questions:

7.      We boiled your life down to three areas those being personal, professional, and educational. If you could design a database to solve some problem in one of those areas what would it be?

8.      What would this database do?

9.      How would it benefit you within that aspect of your life?

10.  Based on the knowledge you currently have describe this database? (you may not be able to answer much of this however please put some thought into this and provide as much of a summary as you can at the time. I am not expecting you to be an expert and want to assess where your current state of knowledge rests in the area of databases)

a.      What kind of system would it use?

b.      What kind of data would it store?

c.      Would this be a system only you access or would multiple users use it?

d.      Do you know of any product that currently exists that would perform this function (you may do some research on this question)

Attached Files: | - KVCC BUS210_DatabaseDesignMgt_Assignment 1.pdf