Creating a Database for an Organisation- Inquiring and Analyzing

Term 1

Unit: Database

Statement of Inquiry: How can a business or an Organisation modernize its records using Information Technology?

Global Context: Globalization and Sustainability

Investigation:

A database is a way of sorting information in an organized, logical way. Databases are usually created using Microsoft access. The meaning of keeping records is "the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in file, etc." to help my costumer to keep his records, I will design database tables and queries.

My costumer is the principle of EIS-M, his request is to design a database including information regarding the students and teachers attending the school. To provide what he wants, I can use Microsoft access to set up data tables and queries. My costumer will use the database I will create for organizing teacher and students' schedules and having access to information in an organized and clear format. In the organization/ school, the product will be used more heavily by managers and teachers. I am going to provide a design solution by presenting students' classes, teachers and grades, and teachers’ classes and students. After than making connections between the two.

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2-      "DATABASE TECHNOLOGY." DATABASE TECHNOLOGY. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Nov. 2014. <http://www.ercim.eu/medconf/papers/jeffery.html>.