Discussion post · The proper implementation of a database is essential to the success of the data performance functions of an organization. Identify and evaluate at least three considerations that one must plan for when designing a database. · Suggest at least two types of databases that would be useful for small businesses, two types for regional level organizations and two types for international companies. Include your rationale for each suggestion. LP’s post states the following:Top of Form Question: The proper implementation of a database is essential to the success of the data performance functions of an organization. Identify and evaluate at least three considerations that one must plan for when designing a database. Answer: Planning is the most significant aspect of database design, and here is where most projects for database design will fail because the database does not meet requirements, does not meet expectations, or are just unmanageable. Here you need to be forward-thinking by planning for the future. What information needs to be stored or what things or entities do we need to store information about (Knauff, 2004)? What questions will we need to ask of the database (Knauff, 2004)? A well-designed database promotes consistent data entry and retrieval and reduces the existence of duplication among the database tables. Relational database tables work together to ensure that the correct data is available when you need it. The first consideration should be what is the database’s intended purpose. Understanding the purpose will help define the need. Some examples might be “to keep a list of customers,” “to manage inventory,” or “to grade students (Filemaker Staff, n.d.).” All stakeholders need to be involved in this process. Second is Data integrity. Is the data accurate, consistent, and complete? What kind of categories does the data align with? Identifying these categories is critical to designing an efficient database because different types and amounts of data in each category will be stored. Some example categories might be sales that track “customers,” “products,” and “invoices,” or grades that track “students,” “classes,” and “assignments (Filemaker Staff, n.d.).” Once the categories have been defined the relations can be determined. A good exercise to help with this is to write these out in simple sentences: “customers order products” and “invoices record customers’ orders.” Now the organization of the data can begin. The categories above can be used as tables so common data can be grouped. The third is security. Is the database secure? Will the current policy and rules be sufficient going forward? Who should have access? Who should have access to which tables (Nield, 2016)? Read-only access? Write access? Is this database critical to business operations (Nield, 2016)? What are the D&R plans? Excessive security creates excessive red tape and obstructs agility, but insufficient security will invite catastrophe (Nield, 2016 ...

1. Discussion post
· The proper implementation of a database is essential to the
success of the data performance functions of an organization.
Identify and evaluate at least three considerations that one must
plan for when designing a database.
· Suggest at least two types of databases that would be useful
for small businesses, two types for regional level organizations
and two types for international companies. Include your
rationale for each suggestion.
LP’s post states the following:Top of Form
Question:
The proper implementation of a database is essential to the
success of the data performance functions of an organization.
Identify and evaluate at least three considerations that one must
plan for when designing a database.
Answer:
Planning is the most significant aspect of database design, and
here is where most projects for database design will fail because
the database does not meet requirements, does not meet
expectations, or are just unmanageable. Here you need to be
forward-thinking by planning for the future. What information
needs to be stored or what things or entities do we need to store
information about (Knauff, 2004)? What questions will we need
to ask of the database (Knauff, 2004)?
A well-designed database promotes consistent data entry and
retrieval and reduces the existence of duplication among the
database tables. Relational database tables work together to
ensure that the correct data is available when you need it.
The first consideration should be what is the database’s
intended purpose. Understanding the purpose will help define
the need. Some examples might be “to keep a list of customers,”

2. “to manage inventory,” or “to grade students (Filemaker Staff,
n.d.).” All stakeholders need to be involved in this process.
Second is Data integrity. Is the data accurate, consistent, and
complete? What kind of categories does the data align with?
Identifying these categories is critical to designing an efficient
database because different types and amounts of data in each
category will be stored. Some example categories might be sales
that track “customers,” “products,” and “invoices,” or grades
that track “students,” “classes,” and “assignments (Filemaker
Staff, n.d.).” Once the categories have been defined the
relations can be determined. A good exercise to help with this is
to write these out in simple sentences:
“customers order products” and “invoices record customers’
orders.”
Now the organization of the data can begin. The categories
above can be used as tables so common data can be grouped.
The third is security. Is the database secure? Will the current
policy and rules be sufficient going forward? Who should have
access? Who should have access to which tables (Nield, 2016)?
Read-only access? Write access? Is this database critical to
business operations (Nield, 2016)? What are the D&R plans?
Excessive security creates excessive red tape and obstructs
agility, but insufficient security will invite catastrophe (Nield,
2016).
Question:
Suggest at least two types of databases that would be useful for
small businesses, two types for regional level organizations, and
two types for international companies. Include your rationale
for each suggestion.
Answer: Initially, this was a tough answer to define because
there are mainly five types of databases: Relational Database,
Operational Database, Data Warehouse, Distributed Database,
End-user Database. The more I looked this over, the stronger I
felt it was more software (as type) related.
Two types of databases for a small business would be XML and
MS Access. Most Business Office licensing comes with MS

3. Access, so there is no additional expense. It has a GUI interface
that allows for drag and drop interaction to build queries and
relationships. XML is a simple flat file that can be easily read
and displayed for XSLT or some code. Also, Microsoft offers
Azure cloud services, which allows for any size business to
have services they need at an affordable price, and they pay as
they go.
Regional level databases could be SharePoint, which allows for
regional and international collaboration, and uses SQL on the
backend. Data can be stored and queried from SharePoint or
from the SQL database where it is stored. Additionally, SQL
and Azure cloud services would work well here. Azure SQL
Database is the intelligent, scalable, cloud database service that
provides the broadest SQL Server engine compatibility and up
to a 212% return on investment (Microsoft Staff, 2020).
International level databases could be any of the databases
mentioned above. One not mentioned is Oracle. JTB
Corporation, a leading tourism company in Japan, has adopted
Oracle Cloud at Customer for in-house data use to support its
international travel processing system infrastructure as part of
its IT strategy towards 2020 (Oracle, 2018).
References
Filemaker Staff. (n.d.). About planning a database. Retrieved
from Filemaker:
https://fmhelp.filemaker.com/help/12/fmp/en/html/create_db.8.2
.html
Knauff, B. (2004, October 14). Design Your Own Database
Concept to Implementation. Retrieved from Dartmouth College:
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~bknauff/dwebd/2004-02/DB-
intro.pdf
Microsoft Staff. (2020). Azure SQL Database. Retrieved from
Azure Microsoft: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-
us/services/sql-database/
Nield, T. (2016, March 10). Get started with SQL: Plan and
design a database. Retrieved from O'Reilly:
https://www.oreilly.com/learning/get-started-with-sql-plan-and-

4. design-a-database
Oracle. (2018, May 14). JTB Corporation Adopts Oracle Cloud
for Its International Travel Processing System Infrastructure.
Retrieved from Oracle:
https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/jtb-adopts-
oracle-cloud-051418.html
EP’s post states the following:Top of Form
The proper implementation of a database is essential to the
success of the data performance designing a database functions
of an organization. Identify and evaluate at least three
considerations that one must plan for when designing a
database.
Planning and designing a database is not an easy task. There is
much consideration that must be taken into account, but the
three main ones I believe should be taken into consideration are
usability, functionality, and security. The database should be
user-friendly and should have features commonly used in other
computing systems such as dropdowns, drag and drops and word
searches. Security is a must since most network systems are
connected to the Internet.
Even if a database does not have direct access to the Internet,
there is a possibility that a host that has access to the database
is. Security of a database should not be only logical; physical
security measures must be implemented as well to prevent
unauthorized users from physically accessing the database. As
for the functionality, users must be able to search, filter data,
add, remove, and make changes. If a user is unable to perform
those tasks, then the database most probably will not meet the
business requirements, making it inadequate.
Coronel, C., & Morris, S. (2017). Database systems: design,
implementation and management.
Boston Ma: Cengage Learning.
https://mytechdecisions.com/it-infrastructure/10-best-database-
software-systems-business-professionals/

5. Suggest at least two types of databases that would be useful for
small businesses, two types for regional level organizations, and
two types for internationally wide companies. Include your
rationale for each suggestion.
Two types of databases for small businesses are Microsoft Excel
and Microsoft Access Database. Microsoft Excel is great
because it already comes in Microsoft Office Suite, and it has
many functionalities. A user can create relationships between
the sheets, tables, and columns to create records that could be
easily be searched and updated. As for Microsoft Access
database is also a good candidate for because it provides
businesses with a more robust solution when compared with
Excel. The benefits of Microsoft Access database are that
Access is cost-effective, scalable and it allows collaboration
unlike Excel, where only one person could be working at a time.
For regional level organizations a SQL server, client-server
based database is adequate for it. SQL databases are relational
databases used widely by IT professionals, also providing
different levels of bundled services based on the size of the
organization. SQL express edition could be used for small
databases. In case an organization outgrows the capacity, they
can easily upgrade to another version of SQL, such as the
Enterprise edition. As for international organizations, they have
the availability of cloud databases from providers such as
Amazon web services and Microsoft Azure. Microsoft provides
SQL database services in the cloud, providing high availability
and low latency from anywhere at any scale. Amazon also
provides high availability and low latency from anywhere in the
world. An added benefit of cloud-based database systems is that
the services are on-demand, and the organizations can increase
or decrease their usage as needed. In most cases, they can incur
cost savings because they do not need to have an initial
investment and also can turn off services when there is no
usage.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3234335/excel-databases-

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https://www.datanumen.com/blogs/5-reasons-small-businesses-
choose-ms-access/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/product-categories/databases/
https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/