Case Study 1 The consultant’s reply was: “In my investigation of your applications portfolios, I’ve applied ...

to the logical data structures and have discovered a very high frequency – approximately

93.286% - of data embedded in application program logic which is largely responsible for the

integrity and synchronization problem currently being encountered. As a solution, I would

recommend the design of a master database each of which would employ relational technology

to reduce the database to third normal form. This would eliminate the possibility of semantic

disintegrity upon querying the database.”

 

Questions:a. Try to guess what the consultant said?

b. Justify the use of technical jargon

 

 Answera. Try to guess what the consultant said? The consultant is recommending designing a master data base which would increase the

integrity and synchronization among the different data field. He is also recommending the design

of the most flexible form of data base which would eliminate the redundancy and data

disintegrity problem.

The consultant is recommending designing the normalized table based on relational technology.

This model provides a declarative method for specification of data and queries. In a relational

model of a database, the database users directly state the information they want to be retrieved

from it and abstract away from the responsibility of describing the data structures that are used to

store data. The consultant is trying to outline the major advantage of relational database in most

concise form.

The consultant is also recommending designing the relational data base in third normal form.

Since relational data base is primarily designed in a way that different tables are interrelated with

the primary key, foreign key, the third normal form will even reduce the data redundancy and

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would provide flexibility in data base design. Besides that it would help to introduce better

security in the database system and also maintain consistency within the database.

 

b. Justify the use of technical jargonThe use of technical jargon depends with whom the consultant is talking. If the second person is

from the technical background and is handling all the system related works, the use of technical

jargon is quite common. I think that the consultant is taking with the system administrator using

such complex technical jargon. To provide exact theme of the consultant’s recommendation, the

use of technical jargon is imperative in some cases because general purpose words would not be

able to provide the required information. But, if the second person or the listener is from non-

technical background the use of such technical jargon would mean nothing and would not impart

any information.

Submitted by:

Mani Ram Paudel

EMBA, Fall 2010

ACE institute of management

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