Unit:

Databases
Assignment title:
Synergy Exhibition Services
June 2017

Important notes
 Please refer to the Assignment Presentation Requirements for advice on how
to set out your assignment. These can be found on the NCC Education
Campus. Click on Policies and Advice in the left-hand menu and look under
the Advice section.
 You must read the NCC Education documents ‘What is Academic
Misconduct? Guidance for Candidates’ and ‘Avoiding Plagiarism and
Collusion: Guidance for Candidates’ and ensure that you acknowledge all the
sources that you use in your work. These documents are available on
Campus. Click on Policies and Advice in the left-hand menu and look under
the Policies section.
 You must complete the ‘Statement and Confirmation of Own Work’. The
form is available on Campus. Click on Policies and Advice in the left-hand
menu and look under the Policies section.
 Please make a note of the recommended word count. You could lose marks
if you write 10% more or less than this.
 You must submit a paper copy and digital copy (on disk or similarly
acceptable medium). Media containing viruses, or media that cannot be run
directly, will result in a fail grade being awarded for this assessment.
 All electronic media will be checked for plagiarism.
Introduction
This assignment is in three parts: design, data and queries, and an assessment. All parts
of the assessment relate to the Synergy Exhibition Services scenario below.

Scenario
Synergy Exhibition Services is a company that provides facilities for putting on displays
and demonstrations at exhibitions for promotional purposes. They are hired by external
customers to do this. Any particular exhibition is for one customer only. Synergy Exhibition
Services want you to design and implement a database that meets the requirements for its
data. These requirements are specified in this scenario and the examples of paper
documents kept by the company are shown below.

Synergy Exhibition Services provides stalls and display installations for exhibitions. An
installation might be a projected slide presentation using software like PowerPoint, a
virtual reality tour or a sound and light show. Pages 3 to 5 show samples of the paper
records that are currently kept by the company.

Please Note: The data shown in the assignment is not necessarily normalised and it is the
candidate’s task to organise the data in the most optimal way possible. For example, the
paper records shown below will not necessarily map directly to database tables. The
candidate is expected to use these tables as a starting point for their own normalisation
and optimisation of the Synergy Exhibition Services data.

Please note also that all SQL scripts should be shown along with their results.

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Exhibition Summary Sheet

Customer Customer Exhibition Exhibition Name Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition

No Name ID Address Dates Type
C201 Travel E111 Ideal Holiday Olympia 01-JUN- Trade
Association Exhibition London, 2017 to Exhibition
of Great Hammersmith 05-JUN-
Britain Road, 2017
Kensington,
London W14
8UX
C112 Hellenic E115 Stampex Islington Arts 27-JUN- Stamp
Philately Factory, 2 2017 TO Exhibition
Society of Parkhurst Rd, 28-JUN-
Great London N7 0SF 2017
Britain
C201 Travel E119 Visit Britain! Weetwood Hall 29- Trade
Association (Yorkshire) Leeds Hotel JULY- Exhibition
of Great and 2017
Britain Conference
Centre, Otley
Rd, Leeds LS16
5PS
C201 Travel E120 Visit Britain! St Austell 1-AUG- Trade
Association (Cornwall) Conference 2017 Exhibition
of Great Centre, St
Britain Austell Business
Park, Saint
Austell PL25
4EJ
C300 Edgar E122 Plumbing UK Olympia 1-AUG- Trade
Jones 2017 London, 2017 TO Exhibition
Plumbing Hammersmith 3-AUG-
Supplies Road, 2017
Kensington,
London W14
8UX
C302 Magic E145 New Horizons in ExCeL London, 7-AUG- Education
Software Education One Western 2017 Exhibition
Gateway, Royal
Victoria Dock,
London E16
1XL

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Staff Record Sheet

Staff ID Name Staff Role

S102 Larry Howard Stand Fitter
S105 Nathan Banes Software Support
S204 Sharon Smith Software Support
S333 Fatin Koury Stand Fitter
S405 Sahib Badri Atiyeh Exhibition Assistant
S431 Diana West Exhibition Assistant
S567 Ellen Levelby Project Manager
S601 Pauline West Installation Designer
S602 Sandy Niles Stand Fitter

Staff Exhibition Record

Staff ID Staff Exhibition Exhibition

Name ID Name
S102 Larry E111 Ideal
Howard Holiday
Exhibition
S204 Sharon E111 Ideal
Smith Holiday
Exhibition
S602 Sandy E111 Ideal
Niles Holiday
Exhibition
S405 Sahib E111 Ideal
Badri Holiday
Atiyeh Exhibition
S601 Pauline E115 Stampex
West
S405 Sahib E115 Stampex
Badri
Atiyeh
S333 Fatin Koury E122 Plumbing
UK 2017
S567 Ellen E145 New
Levelby Horizons in
Education

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 Exhibition Record Sheet
Exhibition ID: E111
Exhibition Name: Ideal Holiday Exhibition
Address: Olympia London, Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London W14 8UX
Start Date: 01-JUN-2017
End Date: 05-JUN-2017

Exhibition Details

Installations:

Installation Installation Description

Type
Slide Show Computer, projection screen and projector stand for projected slide
show of holiday destination of travel destinations around Britain.
Stand Standard exhibition stand
Interactive Standard exhibition stand with computer terminal.
Search
Application

Software:

Software Software Description

Type
Interactive PHP front end / HTML website with back end MySQL database.
Search Data containing details of holiday destinations in Britain. Data to be
Application provided by customer (Travel Association of Great Britiain)
Slide Show Power Point

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Task 1 – Design (40 Marks)
a) Produce an entity relationship model for the proposed database system for
Synergy Exhibition Services. This should be a fully normalised model to 3rd
normal form. (20 marks)
b) Discuss how you have identified primary and foreign keys for your entity
relationship model. You could mention data integrity, referential integrity and
functional dependence in your discussion. (10 marks)
c) Produce a data dictionary for the entity relationship model showing all attributes,
with data types and identifying primary and foreign keys. (10 marks)

Task 2 – Data Entry and Data Manipulation (45 Marks)

All tasks should be carried out using SQL. The queries shown as e) to i) should be
taken as functional requirements of the system that provide useful reports to the
organisation.

a) Create all the tables using SQL. Show your create table scripts and the finished
tables. (10 marks)
b) Enter data on all the exhibitions shown in the assignment. (1 mark)
c) Enter data for all the customers and associate them with exhibitions. Note that a
customer might have more than one exhibition associated with them. (1 mark)
d) Enter data on staff and exhibitions they are working at taken from the
assignment. Give a listing of this information. (1 mark)
e) Write a query that selects all the exhibitions for the Travel Association of Great
Britain. (2 marks)
f) Write a query that selects the staff that work in software support. (3 marks)
g) Write a query that selects all the exhibition details for exhibitions at Olympia. (3
marks)
h) Write a query that counts all the trade exhibitions. (3 marks)
i) Write a query that shows the staff working at stamp exhibitions. (3 marks)
j) Update the item table so that Sharon Smith has changed jobs to Software
Project Manager. (4 marks)
k) Update the staff table so that Pauline West is now known as Pauline Yardley. (4
marks)
l) Update the lesson title of the exhibition ‘Stampex’ to ‘Stampex 2017’. (4 marks)
m) Update any exhibitions that involve Sandy Niles so that now they have Diana
West assigned to them. (5 marks)
n) Delete the staff record for Sandy Niles. (1 mark)

Task 3 – Assessment (15 Marks)

Give an assessment of how the work you have done has met the requirements of Synergy
Exhibition Services. Your discussion should include:

 Your understanding of the requirements. You should include any assumptions you
have made with regard to design decisions and requirements. (5 marks)
 A discussion of how the initial design attempted to meet the requirements. (5
marks)
 An assessment of how well the requirements have been met. (5 marks)

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Submission guidelines
 Your submission should be in the form of a single word-processed document that
includes any necessary diagrams.
 The word count for the document is 2000 words (excluding text in any diagrams). You
should explain any assumptions you have made.
 A digital version must be submitted on a CD, USB flash drive or other similarly
acceptable medium, along with a copy of the developed database.

Candidate checklist
Please use the following checklist to ensure that your work is ready for submission.

Have you read the NCC Education documents ‘What is Academic

Misconduct? Guidance for Candidates’ and ‘Avoiding Plagiarism
and Collusion: Guidance for Candidates’ and ensured that you have 
acknowledged all the sources that you have used in your work?
Have you completed the ‘Statement and Confirmation of Own Work’
form and attached it to your assignment? You must do this. 
Have you ensured that your work has not gone over or under the
recommended word count by more than 10%? 
Have you ensured that your work does not contain viruses and can
be run directly? 

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