MITS4003 Database Systems Assignment 1

MITS4003
Database Systems
Assignment 1
August 2020
Objectives(s)
This assessment item relates to the unit learning outcomes as in the unit
descriptor. This assessment is designed to improve students’ skills to analyze
organization database requirements, develop a data model to reflect the
organization’s business rules and use data manipulation language to manage
database. This assessment covers the following LOs.
1. Synthesize user requirements/inputs and analyse the matching data processing
needs, demonstrating adaptability to changing circumstances;
2. Develop an enterprise data model that reflects the organization’s fundamental
business rules; refine the conceptual data model, including all entities,
relationships, attributes, and business rules.
3. Derive a physical design from the logical design taking into account application,
hardware, operating system, and data communications networks
requirements;
Case Study:
Prestige Automobile Rental (PAR) is a vehicle rental company that rents old
vehicles to the public. PAR has been using manual methods for keeping track of
their customers and their rentals. However, the company would now like to go
online and allow customers to search the available vehicles and see their rental
history.
For the first time, when the customer rents a vehicle from PAR their details (name,
address, phone number, driving license number and credit card number) are
recorded. The date they become a customer is also stored. There are certain types
of vehicles which are classified as heavy vehicles. It is a policy of PAR that these
vehicles are only rented to customers who have no demerit points on their driving
license.
The information about the vehicle (type, registration number, year/make/model,
vin number, distance travelled and current condition) are also stored. Each vehicle
has a unique ID. The customer can search for their desired vehicle and can see if it
is available.
All rentals are for 7 days. Rental charges are based on the type of vehicle (Car (C)
or Heavy Duty (HD)). Rental must be paid for on collection. Customers can rent up
to 2 vehicles at a time. Each rentalID is for a single vehicle for one customer. (The
rentalID is an auto number). When the rental is taken out the date of checkout is
recorded along with calculated due date (7 days from checkout date). When the
rental is returned, the date is recorded in the returned date.
PAR would like to store ‘demerit’ points for the renter in order to identify bad
renters. These demerit points are accumulated at a rate of one point per day a
rental is overdue. PAR will cancel the membership of the customers who have too
many demerit points.
Assignment Requirements and Deliverables:
Part A – 10% (Due in week 5)
Submitted as a MS Word Document
• Develop an Entity Relationship Diagram
• Relational Schema (including Primary, Foreign Keys and all attributes).
• Supplementary Design requirements (data attribute information)
• Discuss physical design and any assumptions made during design
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