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Individual Assignment Database Creation and Reporting Resources: The entity relationship diagram and normalized table specifications from the Week Two individual assignment, SQL Server® and Reporting Services on the Toolwire® site, and Beginning Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Programming Based on your Week #2 IA’s table design metadata, program your own SQL statements using SQL Server’s Management Studio to create, populate, and query a relational database for the Huffman Trucking’s fleet truck maintenance application. (3 points) Use CREATE TABLE statements to create a table for each entity for Huffman Trucking’s fleet truck maintenance database. (2 points) Use INSERT statements to populate the tables with realistic sample data. Include at least 2 rows for each table. (2.5 points; 0.5 point each) Use a separate SELECT statement to create each of the following queries: • A simple query for each table that returns all of the columns and all of the rows for each table. • A query that displays each part that has been purchased by Huffman Trucking Company. For each part, also retrieve its parts catalog information from the parts catalog table and vendor information from the vendor table. • A query that displays all of the rows in the vehicle maintenance table. For each vehicle maintenance row, join the corresponding information from the maintenance descriptions table and vehicles table. • A query that displays each row in the maintenance work order table. For each row in the maintenance work order table, join the corresponding information from the maintenance description table. • A query that counts the number of maintenance work orders for each vehicle in the maintenance work order table. Display the vehicle column and the corresponding count of work orders for each vehicle. (2.5 points) Create a report using the SQL Server Business Intelligence Reporting Services of the parts purchasing history for Huffman Trucking Company. The report should display all parts purchasing history including manufacturer and vendor information, parts catalog information, and associated parts inventory issues, and all parts inventory purchases. Format the report to present to senior management at Huffman Trucking. Place screen snapshots of all of the above SQL statements as they executed in SQL Server Management Studio showing the SQL statements and the results returned, as well as a screen snapshot of your Reporting Services report, showing your actual data, into a single Word or .pdf file Learn More

Individual Assignment BI Presentation Resources: Huffman Trucking in the Virtual Organizations; the entity relationship diagram, tables, and sample database from the Week Two and Week Three individual assignments Prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation for senior management at Huffman Trucking explaining how integrating the fleet truck maintenance information into the corporate data warehouse will support organizational goals. Explain how business intelligence may improve efficiencies and fleet performance. Provide a detailed example of a data-mining technique or application and how it will provide information useful to management. · Describe a data-mining technique from Table 9-4 of Modern Database Management or a data-mining application from Table 9-5 of Modern Database Management. · Identify a specific use of this data-mining tool with the information from the sample database from the Week Four individual assignment. · Identify the attributes that this data-mining tool will access. · Explain how the information gathered using this data-mining tool will support Huffman Trucking’s organizational goals. Support your arguments with at least four peer-reviewed or industry publications. Present your recommendation in a 6- to 8-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation. Keep your slides uncluttered with at most 5 bullets and 7 words per bullet. Your must include speaker notes in your presentation. Learn More

Individual Paper and Database Complete Service Request SR-ta-001: Scheduling System Database. Note. This course utilizes the Virtual Organizations, an Apollo Group, Inc. learning tool. The Virtual Organizations portal is accessed from the link on your course materials page. Write a 300- to 350-word memo to the Technical Services/Logistics Manager at Taylor Ambulance explaining the following(5 pts) · The design you will use · How your electronic solution will cover their needs from a management perspective Create a Microsoft® Access® database using the Entities and Attributes document provided with the Service Request. Include the following(8 pts): · Tables with appropriate data types and keys · Descriptions · Format · Masking Submit the memo and Microsoft® Access® database file to your facilitator. Learn More

Individual Memo and Relationships Update the detailed ERD created during Week Two to normalize it to the third normal form. Write a 300- to 350-word memo to your client that explains the level of normalization and explain why that level is sufficient for this system. Update the Microsoft® Access® database created during Week Two. Assign appropriate keys and relationships among tables established using the Relationships Tool. Once the database has been created, add relevant data to each table, at least 10 records for each. Submit the ERD, memo, and Microsoft® Access® database file to your facilitator. Learn More

Individual ERD Creation Project The following assignment is based on the database environment chosen and discussed in the Week Two Individual Assignment. Use a Microsoft® Visio® diagram to create a detailed ERD using the data specifications noted in the Week Two Individual Assignment. Make any necessary changes provided in your faculty’s feedback. · Use a Microsoft® Access® database to create the preliminary database tables, columns with data types, primary keys, and relationships. Learn More

Individual Normalization of the ERD The following assignment is based on the database environment chosen and created in the Week Three Individual Assignment. Your database project must meet the following assessment requirements: Design and develop a database using professional principles and standards. · Provide a logical and physical design of the database. · Use relational database software application to develop database. · Provide an entity relationship diagram. · Normalize the database. · Generate and provide test data. Use a Microsoft® Visio® diagram to normalize the ERD to third normal form (3NF). Use the Microsoft® Access® database created in Week Three to create a minimum of 10 rows of test data in each table. Also, create at least one query that joins two tables and returns values from both tables. Note. Only the Microsoft® Visio® diagram must be normalized to the 3NF. The 3NF is not required for a Microsoft® Access®database. Submit the ERD and final database to the appropriate Assignment link. Learn More

Create a Microsoft Access database using Riordan Manufacturing’s 2005 sales figures. Normalize the tables to the third normal form. Create relationships among tables using the relationship tool. These relationships must include settings for referential integrity and cardinality. Create an extended ERD of your newly created database, using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Visio. Include primary keys, foreign keys, fields, relationships, and cardinality in the ERD. Learn More

Build queries through SQL along with the query-building tool with sales databases built in Week Two for Riordan Manufacturing. Create a separate table for query information. Include the query name and query description. Enter data into the fields, naming and describing as many queries as you can, and then write two thirds of the queries using the query-building tool. Write the remaining queries in SQL. Create a new query without the tools and enter the SQL into its view. Test your queries to verify that they return the data you described. Learn More

GENERAL OVERVIEW
Scenario/Summary
My colleague, Ann Henry, operates a regional training center for a commercial software organization. She created a database to track client progress so she can analyze effectiveness of the certification program. CLIENT, COURSE, and COURSE_ACTIVITY are three of the tables in her database. The CLIENT table contains client name, company, client number, pre-test score, certification program and email address. The COURSE_ACTIVITY table contains client number, course code, grade, and instructor notes. The COURSE table contains the course code, course name, instructor, course date, and location. Although she and her instructors enter much of the data themselves, some of the data are extracted from the corporate database and loaded into her tables.

Loading the initial data was easy. For grade entry at the end of each course, a former employee created a data entry form for the instructors. Updating most client information and generating statistics on client progress is not easy because Ann does not know much SQL. For now, she exports the three tables into three spreadsheets. To look up a grade in the COURSE_ACTIVITY spreadsheet, she first has to look up client number in the CLIENT spreadsheet. While this is doable, it is certainly not practical. For statistics, she sorts the data in the COURSE_ACTIVITY spreadsheet using multiple methods to get the numbers she needs.

Every month, Ann's database tables need to be refreshed to reflect changes in the corporate database. Ann describes this unpleasant task. She manually compares the contents of newly extracted data from corporate to the data in her spreadsheets, copies in the new values, and then replaces the database contents with the new values.

Ann needs our help. Let’s analyze her situation and determine what advanced SQL she could use to make her tasks easier.
     
L A B O V E R V I E W

Scenario/Summary

The purpose of this lab is to explore join operators to determine which, if any, are appropriate for solving Ann's business problems, as described in this week's lecture.

Since Ann prefers to work from Excel spreadsheets, she wants her CLIENT and COURSE_ACTIVITY tables exported into one spreadsheet rather than two, as she is currently using. We need to determine which, if any, of the join operators will provide the data she wants for the single spreadsheet. (Note: we will not perform the export, just determine how to retrieve the necessary data.) Using the spreadsheet, she will be able to determine:

1. Which course(s) a specific client has taken
2. What grade(s) a specific client has earned in a specific course
3. Which clients did not take any courses
4. Which courses were not taken by any client

Here are results from DESCRIBE commands that show structure (columns and their data types) of tables CLIENT and COURSE_ACTIVITY. You may refer to it while constructing your queries.

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 — Production on Thu Jun 14 22:38:52 2007

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 — 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining Options

SQL> desc course_activity

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For this lab you will be creating several documents. First, write your queries in Notepad to create a script file that will contain all of the queries asked for in lab steps 4 through 13. You can (and should) test each query as you write it to make sure that it works and is returning the correct data. Once you have all of your queries written then create a SPOOL session and run your entire script file. Be sure that you execute a SET ECHO ON session command before running the file so that both the query and the output will be captured in the SPOOL file. IMPORTANT: If you are using Windows Vista you will need to create a directory on your C: drive to SPOOL your file into. Vista will not allow you to write a file directly to the C: drive. This will give you two files for the lab. The third file will the be the Lab1 Report document found in Doc Sharing. You will need to put your responses to the questions asked in the various lab steps.

Now let's begin.

L A B S T E P S

STEP 1: Start Oracle SQL*Plus via Citrix

Log into the Citrix iLab environment. Open your Oracle folder, select SQL Plus and log in to your database instance. Use "sys" as User Name, and "oracle" as the Password. Enter the Host String as "DB9999.world as sysdba" where 9999 is the database number you have been assigned.

STEP 2: Initialize tables

Download the pupbld.sql and Lab1_init.sql files associated with the links to your C: drive or to the F: drive in your Citrix environment. You will need to open each of the files and edit the connection string to reflect your instance name. The pupbld.sql file has two connections strings; one at the top of the script and another at the bottom. Be sure to change both of these to reflect your instance name.

Once you have done this then run the pupbld.sql script first (DO NOT copy and paste it) in your SQL*Plus session. The script will create the product_user_profile synonym in the SYSTEM account which will be used each time you log in as a normal user.

Next run the lab1_init.sql script in your session. The script will create a new user (DBM449_USER) that will be used in various labs in this course. You can find the password for this new user by looking at the CREATE USER statement in the script file. Disregard the DROP TABLE error messages. They occur because the script is designed to work regardless of whether you have already created the tables or not. This way, you may run it if you ever decide to resent the contents of your tables to the original values. When you run the script for the first time, the error messages appear as you attempt to drop tables that do not exist.

Once the script has finished you will be logged into the new user and ready to start your lab.

STEP 3: Verify your tables

You want to verify that everything completed successfully. To do this execute a SELECT * FROM TAB statement to make sure all 5 tables were created and then you can execute a SELECT COUNT(*) FROM statement using each of the table names. You should find the following numbers of records for each table.

• CLIENT table - 5 rows
• COURSE table - 5 rows
• COURSE_ACTIVITY table - 6 rows
• CORP_EXTRACT1 table - 3 rows
• CORP_EXTRACT2 table - 0 rows

NOTE: In the following steps when writing your queries be sure to list the tables in the FROM clause in the same order they are listed in the instructions. Reversing the order of the tables in the FROM clause will produce an incorrect results set

STEP 4: Using the FULL OUTER JOIN operator

Join the CLIENT and COURSE_ACTIVITY tables using a FULL OUTER JOIN.

• Write and execute the SQL statement that produces the client number and name, course code and grade that the client got in this course.

Will the FULL OUTER JOIN be helpful to Ann? Place your response in the lab report document for this step.

STEP 5: Using the RIGHT OUTER JOIN operator

Join the CLIENT and COURSE_ACTIVITY tables using a RIGHT OUTER JOIN.

• Write and execute the SQL statement that produces the client number and name, course code and grade that the client got in this course.

Will the RIGHT OUTER JOIN be helpful to Ann? Place your response in the lab report document for this step.

STEP 6: Using the LEFT OUTER JOIN operator

Join the CLIENT and COURSE_ACTIVITY tables using a LEFT OUTER JOIN.

• Write and execute the SQL statement that produces the client number and name, course code and grade that the client got in this course.

Will the LEFT OUTER JOIN be helpful to Ann? Place your response in the lab report document for this step.

STEP 7: Using the NATURAL JOIN operator

Join the CLIENT and COURSE_ACTIVITY tables using a NATURAL JOIN.

• Write and execute the SQL statement that produces the client number and name, course code and grade that the client got in this course.
• Will the NATURAL JOIN be helpful to Ann? Place your response in the lab report document for this step.

STEP 8: Using the INNER JOIN operator

Join the CLIENT and COURSE_ACTIVITY tables using a INNER JOIN.
Write and execute the SQL statement that produces the client number and name, course code and grade that the client got in this course.

Will the INNER JOIN be helpful to Ann? Place your response in the lab report document for this step.

Write a conclusion based on the five steps above, which join - if any - should Ann use to populate the spreadsheet that can answer her questions.

STEP 9: Using the UNION operator 

Examine the clients and courses in Ann’s tables and the CORP_EXTRACT1 table using the UNION operator.

• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines client numbers in CLIENT and CORP_EXTRACT1.
• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines client numbers in COURSE_ACTIVITY and CORP_EXTRACT1.
• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines course names in COURSE and CORP_EXTRACT1.

Which of these statements, if any, will be helpful to Ann? Place your response in the lab report document for this step.

STEP 10: Using the UNION ALL operator

Examine the clients and courses in Ann’s tables and the CORP_EXTRACT1 table using the UNION ALL operator.

• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines client numbers in CLIENT and CORP_EXTRACT1.
• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines client numbers in COURSE_ACTIVITY and CORP_EXTRACT1.
• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines course names in COURSE and CORP_EXTRACT1.

Which of these statements, if any, will be helpful to Ann? Place your response in the lab report document for this step.

STEP 11: Using the INTERSECT operator

Examine the clients and courses in Ann’s tables and the CORP_EXTRACT1 table using the INTERSECT operator.

• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines client numbers in CLIENT and CORP_EXTRACT1.
• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines client numbers in COURSE_ACTIVITY and CORP_EXTRACT1.
• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines course names in COURSE and CORP_EXTRACT1.

Which of these statements, if any, will be helpful to Ann? Place your response in the lab report document for this step.

STEP 12: Using the MINUS operator

Examine the clients and courses in Ann’s tables and the CORP_EXTRACT1 table using the MINUS operator.

• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines client numbers in CLIENT and CORP_EXTRACT1.
• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines client numbers in COURSE_ACTIVITY and CORP_EXTRACT1.
• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines course names in COURSE and CORP_EXTRACT1.

Which of these statements, if any, will be helpful to Ann? Place your response in the lab report document for this step.

STEP 13: Using subqueries

Examine the clients and courses in Ann’s tables and the CORP_EXTRACT1 table using a subquery with NOT IN operator.

• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines client numbers in CLIENT and CORP_EXTRACT1.
• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines client numbers in COURSE_ACTIVITY and CORP_EXTRACT1.
• Write and execute the SQL statement that examines course names in COURSE and CORP_EXTRACT1.

Which of these statements, if any, will be helpful to Ann? Place your response in the lab report document for this step.

Deliverables
    
What is Due

Submit your spooled lab file with the queries and results sets along with the completed Lab 1 Report to the Dropbox. Your report should contain copies of each query and result set outlined in the lab along with the requested explanation of whether or not it satisfied the business requirement outlined for that particular section of the lab.

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