Assignment title: Information
Overview For this assignment you must create an ER diagram, and a relational schema for a small business. The entities and relationships must be in third normal form. Timelines and Expectations Percentage Value of Task: 20% Due: 5pm Thursday the 28th April, 2016 (week 7) Minimum time expectation: 12 hours Learning Outcomes Assessed The following course learning outcomes are assessed by completing this assessment: K4. design a relational database for a provided scenario utilising tools and techniques including ER diagrams, relation models and normalisation K5. describe relational algebra and its relationship to Structured Query Language (SQL); A1. design and implement a relational database using a database management system; Assessment Details You have been commissioned to create a database for BM Holdings. BM Holdings has two types of inventory, books and DVDs. They would like a database to manage their inventory, sales and suppliers and customers. Some of the reports that BM Holdings would like to run from your database design include a list of customers by suburb and a list of inventory by genre or other category. They would also like to apply discounts to items by inventory type (ie book or DVD) by genre or other category and apply discounts to VIP customers and to bulk orders. The MINIMUM entities you are expected to have are listed below. No normalisation has been undertaken on these entities, so they may be many to many relationships that are not resolved. Your submission is not expected to have many to many relationships left unresolved. You may add entities or attributes as you see fit. Each inventory record will have a unique inventory ID, a title, a type (book or DVD), wholesale price, number in stock, a supplier and a genre (for example Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, fantasy, Crime, etc) Books will have a year of publication, one or more authors, a publisher, type (hardcover or paperback), a markup, and discount. DVDs will have a year released, one or more actors, a producer, a classification (G, PG, MA, etc), a critics rating of 0 to 5 stars, markup, and discount. Authors will have their name, place of birth, date of birth and (if applicable) their date of death Actors will have their name, place of birth, date of birth and (if applicable) their date of death Publishers will have their name, address, contact, phone number and email address.