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Database Management Systems, 2002.
Discusses the two major types of database management systems: relational database management systems (RDBMS) and object-oriented database management systems.
1,644 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 6 sources, APA, AU$ 57.95
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The paper explains the development, function, and purpose of database management systems. It explains the differences between the two major types of database management systems and evaluates some of their strengths and weaknesses. A comparison chart of database management systems is included at the end of the paper.
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"Object-oriented database management system (ODBMS) vendors were hopeful that future applications would be implemented with pure object-oriented systems (Devarakonda, 2001). Initially, these systems looked promising, but they were unable to live up to the expectations. A new technology has evolved in which relational and object-oriented concepts have been combined or merged. These systems are called object-relational database management systems (ORDBMS). ORDBMSs best ODBMSs in most situations because they can provide massive scalability as well as object-oriented features. Today, ODBMS use is mostly confined to niche applications where the data being managed falls into hierarchical structures with numerous and somewhat unpredictable relationships between data objects."
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Enterprise Database, 2006.
A database plan for a hospital including potential uses, advantages and a recommended project plan to develop the database.
1,027 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 39.95
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This paper discusses the importance of using a database for the efficient running of a modern hospital. The paper describes the uses of a database and what type of information it can store, from patient records to employee information. The paper describes the advantages of an enterprise Database Management System (DBMS) like the recommended MySQL Network that includes advanced customer support, reduces the paper trail and provides data driven applications. The paper includes some lists.
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"The database and database strategy are vital parts of any modern business. As you would expect in any business involving a large number of clients, computerized databases will play an important role in the data infrastructure. Customer records will be kept in a safe, fast and reliable database to maximize efficiency. This document will recommend a database plan for a hospital including potential uses, advantages and a recommended project plan to develop the database."
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Object-Oriented Database Management Systems (OODBMS), 2004.
This paper discusses the marketing problems of Object-Oriented Database Management Systems (OODBMS).
835 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 31.95
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This paper explains that Object-Oriented Database Management Systems (OODBMS), which emerged in the 1990s, quickly found their niche in handling complex data types; however, the long-term vision of OODBMSs to replace relational databases has never materialized. The author points out that OODBMS technology remains a small niche market, generating only around a few hundred million dollars in revenues, compared to the multi-billion dollar relational database market. The paper states that the goals of large relational database vendors, such as Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft, have been to synthesize the best of relational databases and OODBMs, such as the flexibility of the OODBMS data model and the performance of relational database functions, into an Object-Relational Database Management System.
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"OODBMSs first started to be researched in the 1980s and the first commercial products gradually appeared in the early 1990s from vendors such as Object Design, Objectivity, Versant, Computer Associates and Ardent. By the late 1980s and early 1990s it was recognized that object oriented (OO) languages had some very strong advantages over non-OO languages for many programming applications. OODBMSs emerged to reduce the impedance mismatch between the programming languages and the DBMS, to offer performance advantages (due to navigation from roots and sophisticated caching and swizzling technologies), and to provide transparent support for complex user-defined types including the ability to store, call and query complex objects directly."
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Sales Contact Database Design, 2005.
This paper is a database design for a sales contact system.
835 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 31.95
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This paper explains that the purpose of this database is to provide a means by which sales-persons can track contact information about potential customers including the history for each customer contact. The author relates that this database will be relational, using the Oracle database and will be interfaced with other existing database systems, primarily the employee database. The paper states that the data consistency is maintained in this system by means of the system assignment of values, validation of entries and limitations on access. Charts and diagram.
Table of Contents
Database Overview
Business Requirements
Interfaces
Consistency and Validation
Screens and Reports
Tables
1. Customer
2. Customer History
3. Employee
4. Sales Territories
5. City
6. State
7. Phone Number
Entity Relationship Diagram
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"The main business requirement is to allow salespersons access to customer information. Salespersons need to be able to find the customer's phone number and address, but they will have only the authority to add to the Phone Number table, if the customer's number is not already in the table. They also need to be able to view and update the Customer History. Employees may add customers and phone numbers, but they may not delete them. They will not have update authority on sales territories. They also will have no authority to update the City or State tables, except to relate a Customer to City."
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Database Management Systems, 2002.
Explores the increasing need for user-friendly database management systems and reviews the database products currently on the market.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, AU$ 47.95
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This paper discusses the increasing need for easy to operate database management systems and reviews the products currently available in the market. The three main players in this field are IBM, MICROSOFT and ORACLE.
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Database Outsourcing, 2002.
Analysis of the practice of database outsourcing and its impact on the American database industry and software sector in general.
1,484 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 53.95
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This paper takes a thorough look at the practice of database outsourcing. The reasons for the rise in its popularity, its economic benefits, and its negative consequences on local workforces are all discussed. The paper concludes with a review of both the positive and negative aspects of outsourcing.
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"The sale of database products has not been affected and database giants such as Oracle IBM and Microsoft continue to reap good profits. Compared to the same quarter last year the company's profit rose by 28% this year. "Oracle generated over $1.25bn in cash as our profitability continues to hit record levels." [Matt Hines] The recent outsourcing of developmental operations to India will contribute to huge cost savings in the coming years. However other database companies such as IBM and Microsoft are also gaining in their market share and catching up with Oracle. IBM and Oracle have also opened new services for their clients. For example IBM'S computing on demand program has become a huge success with more and more companies willing to get their software developmental work outsourced by IBM. The global network of developers, which the company enjoys, gives it the cost and time advantage. Similarly Oracle corporation is also providing its own outsourcing solutions to clients. Oracle's Ebusiness suite outsourcing is part of the outsourcing program. Oracle's proposed acquisition of "Peoplesoft" is also done with a view to improve the software development and outsourcing solutions to clients around the world."
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Database Management, 2005.
An examination of the importance of database management in the business world today.
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 39.95
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In today's information-rich society, database management is an ever-expanding and increasingly important field. This paper discusses databases, database management systems (DBMSs), and their importance in today's society. Additional topics include the need for security, concurrency, and control within database management, as well as the role of the database administrator.
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"A database can be defined as "a structure that can house information about multiple types of entities, the attributes of these entities, and the relationships among the entities" (St. Edward's University). Databases can contain a wide variety of information. For example, a university database may include information about students, courses and classrooms. Further, this university database may contain significant amounts of information about the relationships between these entities, such as student course enrollment, and the use of classrooms for courses (Ramakrishnan)."
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Database Developers and Users, 2005.
A look at how new languages had to be created in order to allow database developers and users to communicate.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 41.95
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The advent of new database technologies has proved beneficial to our society in many different ways. These technologies allow businesses and other organizations to run smoothly and keep track of vital information. However, the creation of such technology has created a communications barrier between developers and users. This paper investigates the issue of communications between database developers and database users.
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"A book entitled Preparing the Information Professional: An Agenda for the Future, examines communications barriers that exist between designers and users. The author shares the results of surveys that were taken from college librarians(Rehman 2000). There were seventy-five respondents and the results found that the respondents emphasized the need for database training (Rehman 2000). The book asserts that the respondents "urged placing a stronger emphasis on information technology-based curriculum and instruction. Another 13 demanded better coverage of database design and retrieval in the library and information education curriculum. Curricula of the existing programs include information technology-based courses in the core and elective components...Swift changes in information technology and national agendas for the creation of an elaborate information infrastructure require concomitant changes in the curriculum. However, library and information education programs are not as prompt to react to these demands for change."
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Database Management Systems, 206.
A discussion on database management systems, their security and safety.
1,122 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 41.95
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This paper discusses on-line information technology and the problems that exist in database security. It continues to offer solutions to this problem, in discussing legislation, software and hardware to protect information databases from the illegal and malicious threats that effect them.
Database Management Systems
Database Security Policies
System Security Policy
Data Security Policy
User Security Policy
Auditing Policy
Bibliography
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"There are many measures and security policies that can be implemented to prevent illegal access to private databases. Typically, every security policy is dependent on the other policies. It is important to note that security policies work best if all the policies embedded within have strong walls against unauthorized access. Otherwise, once one policy fails, there are tendencies that its vulnerability and failure to protect the network, database, or information, can affect the rest of the policies. Following are some of the common policies, as extracted from Oracle Server Administration Guide, that are applied by many organizations which utilize information technology methods for database and information safety and security."
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Database Administrators, 2004.
Examines the role of the database administrator.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 42.95
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This paper examines the role of the database administrator, why they are necessary in organizations and how a database administrator differs from a knowledge manager. The paper examines the various jobs and functions of database management in large organizations.
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"Few companies today are able to exist without an information technology department. Whether a large multinational conglomerate or a small retail establishment nearly all companies rely on computers to some degree. Some companies are highly dependent on computer systems while others use them only for accounting and related tasks. Every organization even the smallest company has at least one person whose job entails making sure that the computer system is up and running or at least knowing who to call when the computer system goes ..."
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Office Database, 2005.
This paper recommends database software for a specific office.
870 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 32.95
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This paper explains that the most common computer database systems used in small businesses are Oracle, IBM DB2, Paradox, MySQL and Microsoft Access, which is used by the author's company. The author feels that Microsoft Access, which the company now uses, is a good choice for an easy-to-use yet feature-rich database system and meets the needs of the organization for the time being; therefore, the author does not recommend investing in any other database software system. The memo relates that, at present, Microsoft Access is used only to maintain employee records; the author recommends that (1) the use be expanded to included inventory and client and vendor management and that intensive training in the use of Microsoft Access be initiated.
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"We are a small company and database usage has been so far kept to a minimum; mainly we use them for human resources management. However, as our company grows I would like to see the use of databases increase and expand into other departments. Furthermore, I have noticed that few office personnel are familiar enough with Microsoft Access to use it regularly or to its full advantage. Our organization would greatly benefit from a training program that focuses on the implementation of databases."
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Database Security Risks and Strategies, 2001.
A paper that reviews database security risks and strategies in an internet world, focusing specifically on Certificate Authorities (CAs) and the specialized risks faced by CAs.
2,795 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 12 sources, APA, AU$ 90.95
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The paper shows that in today's fast paced economy and exploding computing infrastructure, database technologies have become the backbone of internet and application services. With adoption of technology comes risk and traditional attacks on security, with databases not being immune. This paper examines some of the risks, strategies and important aspects of database security as it pertains to deployments and Certificate Authorities.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Nature of Security Issues
Common Attacks
The Threats
The Methods
SQL Server Attacks
SQL Injection Attacks
Oracle Exploits
Prevention
Process over Technology
Best Practices for Protecting Databases
Application Development
Design Considerations for Certificate Authorities
Data Protection
Data Availability
Conclusion
Additional Information
Sample Vulnerabilities
Certificate Authorities
Bibliography
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"Introduction The Internet has spawned a breeding ground for web applications and database systems to perform e-commerce, e-banking, and e-government transactions. Database systems have become an integral and required component of the Internet ecosystem to store security sensitive information. Since database systems are now the foundation for all sensitive data operations, database security has become increasingly important in not only e-commerce on the Internet, but also for conducting normal business operations for almost any organization. Compromise of database security poses new business risks not realized before in corporate IT systems."
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Database Administration, 2005.
A discussion on the challenges facing database administrators.
4,600 words (approx. 18.4 pages), 18 sources, MLA, AU$ 146.95
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This paper considers major issues facing database administrators today, including privacy, networking, security, data storage, staff training and staff retention. It includes a technical description of these issues including firewalls protection, data warehousing, need for effective database administration, bounded and unbounded media.
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"It is difficult to imagine how most companies could operate without databases in today's business environment. Indeed most organizations whether private or public profit or non-profit depend on ..."
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Database Normalization, 2001.
This paper describes database normalization and its origins.
1,490 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 53.95
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This paper thoroughly explains database normalization and views it as a series of steps designed to deal with ways in which tables can be more complicated than necessary. The paper contends that the purpose of normalization is to reduce the chances for anomalies to occur in a database.
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"In 1970, Dr. E.F. Codd's seminal paper "A Relational Model for Large Shared Databanks" was published in Communications of the ACM. This paper introduced the topic of data normalization, so-named because, at the time, President Nixon was normalizing relations with China. (Date, 1990)"
At first glance, Database normalization seems fairly simple. It's a technique used to ensure that there is only one way to know a fact. This is done by removing all structures that prove more than one way to know the same fact as represented in a database relation table. So, the goal of database normalization is to control and eliminate redundancy. One of the more complicated topics in the area of database management is the process of normalizing the tables in a relational database."
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Database Management System, 2002.
An overview of the software development life cycle of a database system.
4,650 words (approx. 18.6 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 183.95
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This paper focuses on the development and analysis of a database system. The whole concept in this paper is to develop the theory of how a database project is done starting from analysis phase till the implementation phase of the software development life cycle.
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Database Case Analysis, 2006.
A review of AIG WarrantyGuard Company's need for a database solution.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, AU$ 38.95
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This document discusses the need for the AIG WarrantyGuard Company to implement a relational database solution in order to reduce human error and increase efficiencies. This solution will also simultaneously impact revenues in a positive manner because invoicing and billing processes will be maximized. Additionally, the paper discusses how customer service quality will also be positively impacted through the facilitation of e-billing strategies enabled through the implementation of a relational database application.
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"AIG WarrantyGuard, Inc. (AIGWG) is a watch warranty company that accepts, completes and submits watch warranty invoices for warranty work done on behalf of OEMs for their customers. These warranty forms are complicated, time-consuming to complete and often rejected on the basis of simple clerical errors. The entire invoicing and billing procedure consumes substantial resources in terms of human capital spent completing and processing them, submission, and re-processing them if they have been rejected. Additionally, operating revenue is frozen while these invoices for billing are in the approval and payment process which, due to these invoicing clerical type errors, freezes a substantial amount of revenue from application elsewhere."
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