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Q an integrated data dictionary is included with the DBMS, while a stand-alone data dictionary comes from a third-party vendor. Database Administration Tools x CASE tools provide support for the planning, analysis, and design phases.

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Database Systems-Lec9 Part 2

Q an integrated data dictionary is included with the DBMS, while a stand-alone data dictionary comes from a third-party vendor. Database Administration Tools x CASE tools provide support for the planning, analysis, and design phases.

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Chapter 16

Database Administration
Part 2
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Database Administration Tools
✔ The Data Dictionary

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◆ Different types of data dictionaries:
● An integrated data dictionary is included with the
DBMS, while a stand-alone data dictionary comes
from a third-party vendor.

● An active data dictionary is automatically updated


by the DBMS, while a passive data dictionary
requires a batch process to create and update the
dictionary.
Database Administration Tools
✔ The Data Dictionary
◆ The data dictionary typically stores descriptions of all:

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●
Data elements defined in all tables of all databases
Tables defined in all databases
● Indexes defined for each database table
● Defined databases
● End users and administrators of the database
● Programs that access the database
● Access authorizations for all users of all databases
● Relationships among the data elements
Database Administration Tools
✔ CASE Tools
◆ CASE -- Computer-Aided Software Engineering

16 ◆ It provides an automated framework for the


Systems Development Life Cycle.
● Front-end CASE tools provide support for the
planning, analysis, and design phases.
● Back-end CASE tools provide support for the
coding and implementation phases.

◆ It is based on the use of structured


methodologies and powerful graphical interfaces.
Database Administration Tools
◆ Benefits of CASE tools
● A reduction in development time and costs

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●
The automation of the SDLC
Standardization of the systems development
methodologies
● Easier maintenance of application systems
developed with CASE tools.
● Improve communications among the DBA,
applications designers, and the end users.
Database Administration Tools
◆ Commercial CASE Tools
● Excelerator from Merant, Inc. provides five

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components:
– Graphics designed to produce structured diagrams as
data flow diagrams and E-R diagrams.
– Screen painters and report generators to produce the
information system’s input/output formats.
– An integrated repository for storing and cross-
referencing the system design data.
– An analysis segment to provide a fully automated
check of system consistency, syntax, and
completeness.
– A program document generator.
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Figure 16.7
An Example of a CASE
Tool’s Use: Excelerator
Database Administration Tools
✔ Commercial CASE Tools
◆ PLATINUM ERwin by PLATINUM Technology

16 ● It produces fully documented E-R diagrams that can


be displayed at different abstraction levels.
● It is able to produce detailed relational designs.

◆ Major relational DBMS vendors, such as ORACLE,


provide fully integrated CASE tools for their own
DBMS software as well as for RDBMSs supplied
by other vendors.
Developing a Data Administration
Strategy
✔ Information Engineering allows us to translate the
strategic goals of the company into the data and

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applications.
◆ IE focuses on the description of the corporate data
instead of the processes.
◆ The output of the IE process is an Information Systems
Architecture (ISA) that serves as the basis for planning,
development, and control of future information
systems. (Figure 15.8)
Forces Affecting The Development Of The ISA

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Figure 16.8
Developing a Data Administration
Strategy
◆ Critical Success Factors for IS Strategy
Management commitment

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●

● Thorough company situation analysis


● End user involvement
● Defined standards
● Training
● A small pilot project
References

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✔ ROB, P. AND CORONEL, C., 2004, Database Systems. 6th Ed.,
Thomson Course Technology

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