The small publishing company you work for wants to create a new database for storing information about all of their author contracts. What factors will influence how you design the database?
What will be an ideal response?
Student answers will vary, but should include some assessment of data quality, business processes and user needs, and relationship to existing IT systems. Key points to include are:
Data accuracy when the new data is input, establishing a good data model, determining which data is important and anticipating what the possible uses for the data will be, beyond looking up contract information, technical difficulties linking this system to existing systems, new business processes for data input and handling, and contracts management, determining how end users will use the data, making data definitions consistent with other databases, what methods to use to cleanse the data.
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