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1004INT
Information
Systems
Week 11
Databases as Business
Tools
Week 11 Learning Objectives
• Understanding
– How to create input forms to improve data
quality;
– The power of queries are used to create
information; and how reports are generated
• Achieve a high level perspective of the
course and relevance of learning
outcomes
• Mental preparation for weeks 12 & 13
and the design document final “exam”
Last Week in Perspective
• Understand how business entities are
uniquely defined
• Understand the relationships between
business entities
• Understand how relational databases are
used to store data and used to create
business information
• How to use MS Access – creating tables
& relationships (related to tutorial
exercises)
Week 11 Activities
• Workshop (Access): Creating input
forms; how queries are used to create
information; and how reports are
generated
• Discussion and summary of the course
and desired learning outcomes
• Q&A: Discussion of weeks 12 & 13 and
the design document final “exam”
Quiz 1 – Input forms
• How does an input form provide data
quality for database software?
• It allows checks to be created so that only
valid input is accepted
• Where are the data checks actually
defined?
• In the “data dictionary” section for each
field definition in the Design View
Quiz 2 – Queries
• What is the name of the type of query
generation tool used in MSAccess?
• Query-by-example
• How else might a query be created?
• Entered directly in SQL
• Are tables and queries different or the
same? Explain.
• A query creates a new table with data from
other tables that meet the query conditions
Quiz 3 - Reports
• What are two database items that can
be used as a source for reports?
• Tables & Queries
• How do queries and reports work
together?
• Standardised queries can be used as a
source for management reports
What you should take away today
• (Information) How input forms, queries and
reports are powerful tools for managing
and leveraging business data
• How each of these tools are implemented
and used in MSAccess
• What to complete in week 12 labs
• Steps to complete the final “exam” in week
13 labs
The semester in summary
• Project-based experiential learning
• Completing a web-based information
system for the assessment of your project
• Understanding detail of network operation
by using low-level network software to
create and maintain a website on a remote
host
• Learning that accuracy matters when
dealing with computers and their
languages (e.g. HTML)
• Understanding how humans are designed
so that effective, functional interfaces can
be designed for Web communication
• Experiencing ways that spreadsheets can
be used as a data management tool
• Understanding how physical and logical
layout of an organization affect information
system design
• Understanding the basics of network
design
• Key concepts for information system
design – scalability, redundancy,
accessibility, and interoperability
• Understand the use of DFDs as a
business analysis tool
• Understanding who and what the “entities”
are in organizations and business
• Understanding the use of ERDs as a
business modelling tool and how they
become the basis for database design
• Experiencing how a database can be used
to manage business data and create
management information for a project
business
• Experiencing real tools and real tasks that
are used in SMEs today
• Role-playing as a System’s Analyst to
understand the steps in IS design
• Understanding (experiencing) the steps in
the System Development Life Cycle
(SDLC)
• Reflective practice to help you understand
how you learn most effectively
• Now put it all together in the IS
design document “exam”
Week 12
Week 12: Complete project requirements
Week 12: Complete minute test
Week 12: Work through Design Template
Week 13
Week 13: Check for link to “test” (Monday)
Week 13: Go to normal lab
• Hand in minute test (name, student #)
• Demonstrate a working link to an
(unfinished) “exam” document to the tutor
• Finish document and test link to it on
Dwarf by Sunday 5pm
Thank you all for working so hard
Good luck with your studies
Steve