Database Design

1-3: History of the Database

Practice Activities
Objectives
• Describe the evolution of the database and give an example of its role in the business world
• Name important historical contributions in database development and design
• List and explain the three major steps in the database development process

Vocabulary
Identify the vocabulary word for each definition below.
A relational database chart that is used to map the
Relational database
information from the entity relationship diagram
The unique identifier for each row of data
Idnetifier
Links data in one table to the data in a second table
Links
by referring to the PK column in the second table
Indicates if a column must contain a value
value

Unique
Indicates if the value in the column is unique within the table

Refers to the format and definition of the data in each

format column

Try It / Solve It
1. Complete the diagram by listing the important events in the evolution of the database. Draw a
line from each event to the era in which it falls.
21st century: Solid growth of DB applications
continues. Examples: commercial websites (yahoo.com,
Computers become cost
amazon.com, google.com), government systems
(Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Bureau
Computers
effective forbecome
private cost
of the Census), art museums, hospitals, schools, etc effective forand
companies, private
storage capacity
companies, and storage capacity
increases.
increases.
An industry shakeout begins with fewer
surviving companies. Oracle survives. The first commercially-available
Kaboom! The usable Internet/World Wide
Web (WWW) appears. A mad scramble ensues to allow relational database systems start
remote access to computer systems with legacy data.
to appear at the beginning of the
The large investment in Internet companies
helps create a tools-market boom for Web/Internet/DB 1980s with Oracle Version 2.
connectors.

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 2. True or False: The Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) was an important historical contribution in
database development and design True

3. Name two important historical contributions in database development and design.

E. F. Codd proposes the relational model for databases, disconnecting the logical organization from the physical storage
P. Chen proposes the entity relationship model (ERM) for database design.

4. If Building the database is the third major task in the database development process, then
what are the first two major tasks?
Analyze – (gives ERD)
Design (gives table instance chart

5. (Optional) List at least three timeline events in the evolution of the database.

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 6. (Optional) To most of us, the Internet has become an essential element in the way we
communicate, the way we do business, and the way we learn. Surprisingly, few people really
know the names of the people and the events that have contributed to its phenomenal growth.

In this activity, you and your classmates will construct a wall mural timeline of the major historical
events in Internet history. Using Internet resources, your group will be assigned one topic from the
research list below. Your group's task is to gather information to add to the classroom timeline:

Find at least four events that illustrate your topic. Each event must have a person, place,
and/or thing associated with it. Add your group's information to the timeline.

Research List:
• Historical thinkers: people without whose inventions computers and communication as we
know it today could not be possible
• Enablers: universities, government agencies, and businesses that contributed to the idea
of the Internet and birth of the Internet
• Communicators: people who developed computer languages, computer networks, and the
technology for one computer to communicate with another
• Innovators: people and businesses that enabled the average person to be able to use a
computer and communicate on the Internet
• Movers and shakers: people and companies that transformed the Internet into a virtual mall
of information and services

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