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Chap 005
Chap 005
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Learning Objectives
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Case 1: Cogent Communications, Intel, Others
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Case Study Questions
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Case Study Questions
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Logical Data Elements
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Logical Data Elements
Field
Character Record
(data item)
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Logical Data Elements
File
Database
(table, flat file)
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Electric Utility Database
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Common Database Structures: Hierarchical
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Common Database Structures: Network
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Multidimensional Model
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Common Database Structures: Object-Oriented
Source: Adapted from Ivar Jacobsen, Maria Ericsson, and Ageneta Jacobsen, The Object Advantage: Business Process
Reengineering with Object Technology (New York: ACM Press, 1995), p. 65.
Copyright @ 1995, Association for Computing Machinery. By permission.
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Evaluation of Database Structures
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Database Development
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Data Dictionary
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Database Development
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Entity Relationship Diagram
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Logical and Physical Database Views
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Data Resource Management
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Case 2: Applebee’s, Travelocity, and Others
Applebee’s
– Uses data for basic business decisions, such as
replenishing food supplies based on how much
finished product was sold daily
– Developing more sophisticated analyses that look
at how well items are selling
This will help the company make better decisions about
what to order and what products to promote
Today, organizations extensively aggregate and
mine their data to make better decisions
– Travelocity mined 600,000 comments so it could
better monitor and respond to customer issues
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Case Study Questions
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Types of Databases
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Operational Databases
Database examples:
customer, human resource, inventory
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Distributed Databases
Advantages Disadvantages
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Distributed Databases
Replication
Duplication
Bibliographic and
full-text databases
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Components of Web-Based System
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Data Warehouse Components
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Applications and Data Marts
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Data Mining
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Traditional File Processing
Problems
Data redundancy
Lack of data integration
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Traditional File Processing - Banks
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Database Management Approach
A database
Consolidates Data can be management
data records, accessed by system (DBMS)
formerly in many different is the software
separate files, application interface
into databases programs between users
and databases
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Database Management Approach
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Database Management System
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Common DBMS Software Components
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Database Management System
Database Development
– Defining and organizing the content, relationships,
and structure of the data needed to build a database
Database Maintenance
– Using transaction processing systems and other
tools to add, delete, update, and correct data
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DBMS Major Functions
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Database Interrogation
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Database Interrogation
SQL Queries
– Structured, international standard query
language found in many DBMS packages
– Query form is SELECT…FROM…WHERE…
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Database Interrogation
Boolean Logic
– Developed by George Boole in the mid-1800s
– Used to refine searches to specific information
– Has three logical operators: AND, OR, NOT
Example
– Cats OR felines AND NOT dogs OR Broadway
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Database Interrogation
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Microsoft Query Wizard
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Database Maintenance
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Application Development
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Case 3: Amazon, eBay, and Google
– Customer reviews
– Inventory figures
– Countless other layers of content
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Case 3: Amazon, eBay, and Google
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Case Study Questions
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Case Study Questions
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