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Yukon College COMP 210 - Fall 2002
Database Design I
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Term Project

The term project is made up of a series of deliverables, each building towards the finished product. This finished product will consist of a relational database implementation and a user application that accesses and manipulates the database.

Please remember that all deliverables must be submitted at the beginning of class (6:00 pm) on the date they are due. Late deliverables will be penalized 20% per working day, unless prior arrangements have been made with the instructor.

The instructor will also build a parallel project, intended both as a reference for marking purposes and as a method to ensure that the individual student projects remain somewhat synchronized. The deliverables from the instructor's project will be posted to this page, and the physical artifacts (e.g. Oracle database schemas) will be accessible to the students as well.

To view the detailed description of each deliverable, click the links in the Deliverable column below. These descriptions will be posted to the site over the course of the term, and will also be handed out in class.

Deliverable Weight Due Date Description
Proposal
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4% September 19 An initial draft of the proposal must be submitted on September 19th. The proposal outlines the general goals of the project: the "business" concept to be modelled, specific informational attributes that must be stored, and questions that the populated database will be expected to answer. The instructor will then return this draft, unmarked, but with comments or suggestions concerning the scope of the proposed project.
October 3 The final, or refined, draft of the proposal is due October 3rd. This version of the proposal should incorporate some or all of the changes recommended by the instructor, as well as any other modifications that came to light in the time since the initial draft was submitted. This version of the proposal will be graded and is worth 4% of the term mark.
Conceptual Model
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4% October 17 This deliverable is composed primarily of the Entity-Relationship model diagram describing the project design.
Physical Design
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4% October 31 The Physical Design is submitted as both a Relational Schema diagram of the design and the SQL DDL scripts used to produce the schema. The schema must also be implemented on the course's Oracle server database.
DML Population Scripts
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4% November 14 This deliverable is a set of SQL DML scripts that populate the relational schema.
DML Query Scripts
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4% November 28 This deliverable is a set of SQL DML scripts that query the database to answer the questions originally posed by the client.
Final Project Submission 10% December 12 This deliverable is a resubmission of all of the previous deliverables, incorporating any new ideas that cropped up along the way, or suggestions made by the instructor as the deliverables were returned.
Total Term Weight: 30%  
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