Introduction to information systems T. Cornford, M. Shaikh is1 060 2013

2.3.1 Reporting database assignments
When preparing your report for the database assignment, you are asked to 
include the following items.
• A description of the database problem tackled.
• A class diagram of the application, showing the various classes 
identified and their associations. You must use UML notation as shown 
in Chapter 8.
• The normalised relations that you will implement in the software, showing 
the attributes and keys together with their field type and ‘picture’ (for 
example, the type of data that is held – text, a date, a number, etc).
• A sample table of the basic relations set up in the database software 
together with a small amount of data.
• Designs for data input screens and reports and queries produced.
• Very brief description of how the system is operated and the commands 
used to undertake each task. (Note: it is assumed that this is done 
by using interactive commands of the database package, not by any 
programming.)
• Examples of the reports produced.

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The total report should be about six pages of carefully laid out text, figures 
and diagrams, with an absolute maximum of eight pages including all 
examples of printouts or other necessary computer-generated reports. 
Reports must be permanently bound (for example, well stapled, not 
secured by paper clips or just slipped into plastic binders). Each page 
should be numbered and should have your student number on it. The 
report must be produced with the aid of a word processor and you 
are expected to insert relevant diagrams or screen shots into the text. 
Diagrams should either be prepared using a computer package, or perhaps 
done by hand and scanned in to the document.
2.4 Spreadsheet assignment