Faculty of Science

Objectives

To address the issues involved in the administration of a database.

Contents

Data administration and design; the data-base-administrator’s functions; the concern of end-users; end-user education; data-base languages for end-users; excessive application pressure; database and politics; information quality; security and privacy, audit ability; executive information systems; subject-data-base planning; corporate entity analysis; entity-activity analysis; corporate reorganization; reasons for long term database successes and failures.