CIS
515 Week 10 Technical Paper: Database Administrator for Department Store
CIS 515 Week 10 Technical Paper:
Database Administrator for Department Store
The Strayer Oracle Server may be
used to test and compile the SQL Queries developed for this assignment. Your
instructor will provide you with login credentials to a Strayer University
maintained Oracle server.
Imagine that you have been hired as
the database administrator for a local department store. The department store
has recently expanded by opening five (5) stores within your local region. They
have also launched a series of marketing campaigns to attract new customers and
increase sales. For your hired role, you will be responsible for creating and
maintaining an enterprise-wide database system that will hold the sales and
inventory data for the organization. The designed database will help operations
in supporting its new business marketing strategy. Using the concepts presented
throughout the course, you will develop a plan to create this database and
establish a design that aligns with the product sales initiatives of the
organization.
Write a twelve to fifteen (12-15)
page paper in which you:
- Identify the potential sales and department store
transactions that can be stored within the database.
- Design a database solution and the potential business
rules that could be used to house the sales transactions of the department
store.
- Evaluate all relationships of each entity within your
database solution using the Crow’s Foot notation. Include all data
elements, entities, relationships (such as 1:M, 1:1, M:N), and
cardinalities for the department store database in your diagram. Note:The
graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
- Research the Internet for best practices of how retail
stores use databases for retaining customers and increasing sales and
complete the following:
- Justify how Big Data tools could be used for
forecasting sales and inventory of the department store.
- Propose two (2) SQL Stored Procedures that use SQL
functions to help sales associates perform explanatory or predictive
analytics.
- Give your opinion on which of the two (2) ways you
proposed in Question four (4) b provide greater value to expanding their
business within the region.
- Provide a copy of your working SQL code as part of the
paper.
- Research the Internet for database vendors that provide
cloud computing services and complete the following:
- Estimate the types of costs involved or the pricing
structure required when implementing a cloud-hosted solution for a
database.
- Analyze security considerations and pricing of the
different cloud implementation types.
- Rank the cloud services options of Software as a
Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service in terms
of functionality, mobility, and ability to provide distributed
transaction concurrency. Compare how these cloud-based services fit
within an environment where users are mobile. Determine the technical
provisions that would be required to ensure data integrity.
- Evaluate whether the use of a distributed DBMS
structure is appropriate and identify the optimization techniques that
should be factored in to enhance the operations of the database in your
design.
- Provide at least two (2) examples of how lost updates
and uncommitted data may occur, keeping in mind that five (5) stores will
be generating transactions.
- Determine the concurrency control factors that can be
used to ensure valid execution of transactions within the current
multiuser environment.
- Research the Internet for backup and restoration
recovery solutions and database security threats that could be applicable
to the department store. Upon your research, complete the following:
- Suggest at least two (2) options that could be made
available to provide disaster management functions for the database
system within the retail environment.
- Assess the types of security threats that may exist
when managing the department store database and suggest measure(s) that
can be performed to minimize these threats that are particular to retail.
- Use at least six (6) quality resources in this
assignment. Note:Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify
as quality resources.
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