Database Design and Management Assessment-3 (TECH1400) Assignment Help
Subject Code: | TECH1400 |
Subject Name: | Database Design and Management |
Assessment Title: | Demonstration and plan – Part I |
Assessment Type: | Individual |
Word Count: 200 Words (+/-10%) | |
Weighting: | 30 % |
Total Marks: | 100 |
Submission: | MyKBS |
Due Date: | Week 9 |
Your Task
This demonstration assessment is to be completed individually.
– You will be given a database schema, data, and a scenario.
– You are to carefully analyse the database, ensuring you understand the stored data. – You must write an SQL query for each question below.
– You must also answer the additional question at the end of the assessment.
– Once completed, you must submit your .sql file to Turnitin.
Assessment Description
University of Australia (UoA) is a university with 24 departments located all across Australia. These departments act as the work-space for each student and employee, with a total of 20,000 employees working at UoA.
You have been hired by UoA as a Database Administrator to do some data retrieval on their database. You have been given the database schema and data, as seen below.
Employees(EmployeeID, DepartmentID, SalaryID, Title, EmployeeFirstName , EmployeeLastName, Gender, yearHired, birthyear, PerformanceBonus)
Departments(DepartmentID, DepartmentName, Location)
SalaryClass(SalaryID, Salary)
DepartmentEmployee(EmployeeID, DepartmentID)
A member of the leadership team at UoA, Chris Taverly, is interested in the data stored in this database and has asked you a variety of questions. As there are thousands of rows of data in this database, it is not possible to find answers to these questions by eye. You are asked to use MySQL to find the answers to the questions below.
Data Files
Once found on MyKBS, you must download the following files:
Assessment_Database.sql
Assessment_Employee_Data.sql
Assessment_Data.sql
Assessment Instructions
As an individual, you must download the database and data files and load them into MySQL. Once loaded, you must develop queries for the following questions:
Note: You should include a comment above each query, specifying which question you are answering.
Question 1: Show the first five thousand employees in the employees table (10 marks) Question 2: Display all employee first names in alphabetical order (10 marks)
Question 3: Show employees who have worked at the University the shortest amount of time (20 marks) Question 4: Display the names of all employees whose age is a palindrome (20 marks)
Question 5: Write a query to display all male and female employees who were not born in 1993 and who will not receive a performance bonus (20 marks)
Question 6: Is there anything in this database that you would improve? If no, explain why. If yes, what would you change and why? (200 words) You must include this in your .sql file as a comment) (20 marks)
Important Study Information
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Assessment Marking Guide
Question 1
Criterion | 0 marks | 2.5 marks | 5 marks | 7.5 marks | 10 marks |
Demonstrated how to show the first five thousand employees in the employees table. | Mainly inaccurate demonstration or no attempt has been made. | Partial demonstration of one case with errors and inconsistencies. | Partial demonstration of one case with no errors and inconsistencies. | Partial demonstration of both cases with minor errors and inconsistencies. | Complete demonstration without errors. |
Question 2
Criterion | 0 marks | 2.5 marks | 5 marks | 7.5 marks | 10 marks |
Demonstrated how to display all employee first names in alphabetical order. | Mainly inaccurate demonstration or no attempt has been made. | Partial demonstration of one case with errors and inconsistencies. | Partial demonstration of one case with no errors and inconsistencies. | Partial demonstration of both cases with minor errors and inconsistencies. | Complete demonstration without errors. |
Question 3
Criterion | 0 marks | 5 marks | 10 marks | 15 marks | 20 marks |
Demonstrated how to show employees who have worked at the University the shortest amount of time. | Mainly inaccurate demonstration or no attempt has been made. | Partial demonstration of one case with errors and inconsistencies. | Partial demonstration of one case with no errors and inconsistencies. | Partial demonstration of both cases with minor errors and inconsistencies. | Complete demonstration without errors. |
Question 4
Criterion | 0 marks | 5 marks | 10 marks | 15 marks | 20 marks |
Demonstrated how to display the names of all employees whose age is a palindrome. | Mainly inaccurate demonstration or no attempt has been made. | Partial demonstration of one case with errors and inconsistencies. | Partial demonstration of one case with no errors and inconsistencies. | Partial demonstration of both cases with minor errors and inconsistencies. | Complete demonstration without errors. |
Question 5
Criterion | 0 marks | 5 marks | 10 marks | 15 marks | 20 marks |
Demonstrated how to write a query to display all male and female employees who were not born in 1993 and who will not receive a performance bonus. | Mainly inaccurate demonstration or no attempt has been made. | Partial demonstration of one case with errors and inconsistencies. | Partial demonstration of one case with no errors and inconsistencies. | Partial demonstration of both cases with minor errors and inconsistencies. | Complete demonstration without errors. |
Question 6
Criterion | 0 marks | 5 marks | 10 marks | 15 marks | 20 marks |
Provided justification on whether the database needs to be improved or not. | No justification provided on whether the database needs to be improved. | Poor justification provided on whether the database needs to be improved. | Some justification provided on whether the database needs to be improved. | Good justification provided on whether the database needs to be improved. | Excellent justification provided on whether the database needs to be improved, including a technical explanation. |
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