Part 1 Assignment: What is a Database Professional, and What Do Database Professionals Do?
Purpose
In this assignment, you will explore the Data Base Life Cycle (DBLC) and compare it with the more general Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Additionally, in this unit’s Assignment, you will explore the career of a database professional and select a type of database professional in order to describe their professional functions, obligations, and reporting structure.
Assignment
This Assignment includes a written component and a practical component.
Part 1: SDLC Cycle
Write a 300–400 word response reviewing the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Database Life Cycle (DBLC) and how the DBLC fits within the SDLC. Please provide references to support your response. The items below should be addressed.
Define the term SDLC.
Define the term DBLC.
Define how the DBLC fits within the SDLC.
Part 2: Career Roles
Select a database career role (i.e., database developer, database designer, database administrator, database analyst, database architect, database consultant, database security officer, or data manager). Write a 300–400 word summary defining this role. Please provide references to support your response. The items below should be addressed.
Define the role within an organization (i.e., Who does this role report to? Who does this role oversee?).
Define the tasks that this role performs.
Provide a job advertisement for this role.
Assignment Requirements
Your paper should be 2–3 pages in length. Be sure to use appropriate APA format and cite your textbook or other sources that you used in your paper.
The paper should contain sufficient information to adequately answer the questions and contain no spelling, grammar, or APA errors. Points deducted from grade for each writing, spelling, or grammar error are at your instructor’s discretion.
Written work should be free of spelling, grammar, or APA errors. Points deducted from grade for each writing, spelling or grammar error are at your instructor’s discretion.
***REQUIRED READING***
Read the following chapters in your text:
Chapter 1: “Database Systems”
Chapter 2: “Data Models”
Chapter 3: “The Relational Database Model”
Chapter 4: “Entity-Relationship (ER) Modeling”
Chapter 1 introduces the basic concepts and definitions of databases and data modeling techniques. As part of the data modeling, review the entity-relationship model noting the basic concepts and the concepts of entities, attributes, and relationships.
Chapter 2 introduces the basic concepts and definitions of data modeling techniques used to design databases.
Chapter 3 reviews the conceptual design components as database design.
Chapter 4 reviews Entity Relationship (ER) modeling. Topics covered include entities, attributes, business rules, top-down database design, bottom-up database design, relationships, entity relationship diagrams, and the notations used as part of the conceptual design process.
Web Reading
Using your favorite search engine, please research the following topics:
Entity relationship diagrams
Chen notation
Crow’s feet notation
Data modeling concepts
Read the following chapters in your text:
Chapter 1: “Database Systems”
Chapter 2: “Data Models”
Chapter 3: “The Relational Database Model”
Chapter 4: “Entity-Relationship (ER) Modeling”
Chapter 1 introduces the basic concepts and definitions of databases and data modeling techniques. As part of the data modeling, review the entity-relationship model noting the basic concepts and the concepts of entities, attributes, and relationships.
Chapter 2 introduces the basic concepts and definitions of data modeling techniques used to design databases.
Chapter 3 reviews the conceptual design components as database design.
Chapter 4 reviews Entity Relationship (ER) modeling. Topics covered include entities, attributes, business rules, top-down database design, bottom-up database design, relationships, entity relationship diagrams, and the notations used as part of the conceptual design process.
Web Reading
Using your favorite search engine, please research the following topics:
Entity relationship diagrams
Chen notation
Crow’s feet notation
Data modeling concepts
