BSc (Hons) Business Computing and Information Systems Advanced Database Management Systems

University of Wales BSc (Hons) in Business Computing and

Information Systems
Module name: Advanced Database Management Systems

Level: NQF Level 6

Semester: Spring 2011

Issue date: Wednesday 23rd March 2011

Submission deadline: Friday 29th April 2011, 12:00 noon, UK time

Module Weighting: 40%

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Assignment Guidance
The learning outcomes assessed in this assignment are as follows:

LO Learning Outcomes Assessment Criteria

Practical Skills Demonstrate a practical - Shape for ER diagram
1 understanding of SQL. - Relationships for ER diagram
- Correct use of notation (UML, SQL, Data
Dictionary)
- Appropriate screen dumps
- Presentation of report
Practical Skills Design and implement a database
2 system for a given business
scenario.

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in academic journals and other relevant sources.

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the level of marking relates to your standard of work.

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Plagiarism’.
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Case Study: Dream Cruises

Background on Dream Cruises

Dream Cruises is a company that organises holiday cruises and various events such as business
conventions aboard ships.

Until now they have kept their records on a card index system but have realised that it is time
that they moved over to a fully computerised database system. They have employed you to
build a fully working database system to handle their core business which is concerned with
the following areas:

• Customer records.
• Vessel (Ship) records.
• Organisation of cruises
• Organisation of events for clients.

Taken from an interview with Sharon Adego, booking clerk:

“A customer can be an individual or a person representing an organisation. If it is a person

representing an organisation we keep a note of the organisation. Our business spreads by word
of mouth within organisations so we might deal with various people from the same
organisation, from different departments for example. We always record a booking for an event
against a person”.

“A customer books a particular type of event, for example a dealer incentive cruise. We make
the initial booking for the type of event and then we either match this to an existing event or set
up a new event if there isn’t one to match. When we set up the event it is for a particular vessel
on a particular itinerary. An itinerary is a list of destinations. Once we have set up the event it
is given a number, which we tell the client. We then inform them of the details such as the ship
name, starting port and date”.

“We keep detailed information about the itinerary itself. We have to know the starting port and
the ending port with the dates and times of arrival and departure, the ports of call with arrival
times and departures. Obviously a particular port might be part of more than one itinerary. For
each port we also keep a record of the facilities that are on offer; for example casinos, hotels,
museums. Facilities are classified by type”.

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Document 1. Taken from the company promotional literature:

Types of Holiday and Business Cruises

There are many different sorts of event we can be stage aboard a ship. Dream Cruises has
experience with them all.

Traditional Holiday Cruise

This could be a sea cruise around, for example, the Mediterranean Sea. There are also river
cruises such as the popular River Nile cruise.

Sales or Dealer Incentives

Cruising is an effective way of encourage clients to buy goods or services from your business.

Recognition or Customer Appreciation Programs

You can reward your staff or valued customers by booking on them on a cruise.

Conventions, Sales Meetings, Board Meetings

With capacity ranging from 10 on a small yacht to up to 3,100 people on a luxury cruise liner
we can find you the ideal venue to hold a business convention, sales meeting or important
board meeting.

Floating Hotels
If there’s a shortage of hotel space for a city wide convention in a port city then how about
docking a cruise ship in port and creating instant accommodation?

Full-ship Charters
Tailor-made cruises for your organisation are a brilliant way of wooing new customers or
generating publicity. Ship capacities range from 10 to 3,100 passengers.

Document 2. Types of Ship.

Below is a copy of a manual record with information about types of ships.

Type No of Sleeping Rooms or Suitable for Notes

Berths Events
Mega-Liner 800-3100 All Bahamas, Caribbean or Alaska
only because of size.
Mid-size 500 – 800 All Most destinations available.
ships
Small Ship 200 - 500 All Most destinations available.
Yachts 50 – 200 All except hotel. Includes motor vessels as well
as sailing boats.
River Boats 20 – 200 Holiday Cruise, Usually on the Danube,
Incentive, reward. Thames or Rhine.
Meetings.
Tall Ships 20 – 100 All except hotel Usually for short island cruises
in Mediterranean
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Document 3. Particular Vessels.

Below is a list of some ships.

Name of Vessels Type Starting Port

SS Diana Mega-Liner Kingston
SS Esmerelda Mega-Liner Kingston
Missy Yacht Athens
SS Madam Mid-size ship London
Campanela River Boat Vienna

Document 4 – Sample Itineraries

Itinerary Name Destinations For vessel types

Port of London London Tower Hill, Small ship, yacht
Greenwich, Harty,
Whitstable
Caribbean 1 Kingston, Antigua, St Mega-Liner, Mid-size
Vincent, St Lucia, ship.
Havana
Caribbean 2 Kingston, Trinidad, Mega-Liner, Mid-size
Tobago, Guyana ship.
Greek Islands 1 Athens, Paros, Kimolos, Midsize ship, Small
(Cyclades) Sefnos, Serifos ship, yacht
Greek Islands 2 Zakinthos, Kefalonia, Midsize ship, Small
(Ionian) Ithaca, Corfu ship, yacht.

Document 5 – Customer Information

The following is a sample of a customer record sheet for a person.

First Name John

Surname Bageley
Business Address 101 Vauxhall Bridge Road
Telephone Number (020) 9876 3456
Other Phone Numbers mob: 78973343434 home (020)
3456 93493
Name of Organisation Curtis Mayfield Investments
Position in Organisation Events Organiser, Staff
Development Department
Our Reference Number P789

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Customer record sheet for an organisation:

Name Curtis Mayfield Investments

Address 101 Vauxhall Bridge Road
Main Phone Number (020) 9876 3456
Type of Business Investment House
Contact Name John Bageley or Rahul Patel
Our Reference Number O89

End of Case Study

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Assignment
You are required to produce a report that addresses all of the following tasks:

Task 1 (30 marks)

Create an ER diagram (using UML notation) of the Dream Cruises system. Please state any
assumptions that you make.

Task 2 (15 marks)

Create a data dictionary for the Dream Cruises system. The template for the data dictionary is
presented in Lecture 3.

Task 3 (15 marks)

Create the relevant SQL CREATE TABLE statements for implementing the Dream Cruises
system in a DBMS of your choice (not MS Access). You should provide screen dumps to show
that the create statements have worked.

Task 4 (15 marks)

Discuss the population of the database tables for the Dream Cruises system (choice of data,
order of population, issues and resolutions and SQL used) supported by appropriate screen
dumps.

Task 5 (10 marks)

Create the SELECT statement for a query on at least one table that uses the AS, COUNT,
GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses.
This should be supported by an explanation of the purpose the query may serve in the Dream
Cruises system (you will be penalised if you present more than one query). You should provide
a screen dump to show the output of the query.

Task 6 (10 marks)

Create a set of screen dumps showing all of the data in each table – the data must be ordered by
the primary key.

The remaining 5 Marks will be awarded for the presentation of the report.

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