11 Nov BIS-245-0 Database Essent for Busn w/Lab
Scenario
A small surgery center needs your help to create a database. The office manager has identified the following types of data (entities): patients, doctors, procedures and appointments using the following business rules:
· Patients can have many doctors and many doctors can see many patients.
· Patients can have many procedures and many procedures are done on patients.
· Doctors can have multiple appointments.
· (hint: these one to many and many to many relationships. Many to Many relationships will require associative tables to be added).
Requirements
1. Please identify the attributes and primary keys needed for each of the entities.
2. Identify the data types you would use for each of the attributes.
3. Determine the relationships between the entities and find the one-to-many and many-to-many relationships.
4. Create an ER diagram using Visio include the associative tables based on your analysis.
5. Identify all foreign keys needed in the database design.
6. Create the database and relationships in Access and populate the tables using the spreadsheets (unless your Professor wants you to type the data into the tables).
7. Write a 3-5-page APA paper discussing the following topics:
a. Discuss Database impact on the workplace,
b. Discuss database benefits when businesses use querie,
c. Forms, and reports.
d. Discuss at least two security concerns should be discussed with a proposed solution to mitigate the security issues.
Note
The Case Study is an individual project that has two project Milestones. Milestone 1 is due Week 4 and Milestone 2 is due Week 8.
Case Study Files
Please download the Case Study Files (Links to an external site.) needed for this assignment.
Grading Rubrics
Milestone 1 – Due Week 4 – 50 Points
|
Step |
Task |
Points |
|
1a |
Primary key identified for each entity (four tables): patients, doctors, procedures and appointments |
5 |
|
1b |
Attributes identified for each entity (four tables): patients, doctors, procedures and appointments |
5 |
|
2 |
Data Types |
|
|
2a |
Identified data types |
5 |
|
3 |
Relationships |
|
|
3a |
Identify one-to-many relationships |
5 |
|
3b |
Identify many-to-many relationships |
5 |
|
4 |
Foreign Keys |
|
|
4a |
Add foreign keys to tables as needed |
10 |
|
5 |
ER Diagrams |
|
|
5a |
Create an ER diagram using Visio |
15 |
|
Total |
|
50 |
