Database-Driven Web Sites Presented by Wei-Li Liaw Nov. 8 2005

Overview 1. What is Database-Driven Website 2. Why build a Dbase-driven Website? 3. Successful Story 4. What is Database 5. History of Database 6. Database choices 7. IA and Dbase-driven Website 8. Conclusion 9. References

What is Database-Driven Website A database-driven Web site is a Web site that uses a database to gather, display, or manipulate information

Traditional Database-driven Html Pages V.S. Website Html Website Database-Driven Website Where do you store your data .html files Database Tables How to store your data Static Dynamic ( in real time) Maintenance Hard (If you have many pages) Easy

Traditional Web Pages (1) The data you want to store

Traditional Web Pages (2) Data is stored in the source code

Traditional Web Pages (3) $

Why database-driven Website? (1) Content is king !! Achieving complete separation between your site's design and the content you want to present. Interaction in real time Sorting and Ranking

Why database-driven Website? (2) Example – Team Work Users / Web Visual Designers Database Designers / Web content managers ------ Interaction

Why database-driven Website? (3) Example - Blog

Why database-driven Website? (4) Sorting and Ranking Using a relational database allows you to quickly and easily answer queries about prices, customers, or products. Examples: www.ebay.com www.google.com

Successful Story (1) Overview One of the largest facilities maintenance providers in North America, UNICCO Service Company (UNICCO) has built its success on long-term customer loyalty, earning a 95 percent customer retention rate. As the industry became increasingly competitive, UNICCO realized that, to maintain its high customer retention rate, it needed to provide its field force with more sophisticated tools to accelerate the flow of information. Resource: http://www.ibm.com

Successful Story (2) Website need: User’s Opinion: Speed up the flow of information on results of facilities inspections to improve customer satisfaction and increase business. User’s Opinion: ” (With Database) we’ll be able to continuously improve our quality with tested, proven and secure technology.” - Bilal Khokhar, Development Manager of Field Applications, UNICCO Resource: http://www.ibm.com

Successful Story (3) 70% to 80% savings in deployment costs…..; ….95% customer retention rate from integration of the handheld with corporate data stores; improved customer satisfaction Resource: http://www.ibm.com

What is Database Definition A database is an organized collection of information records that can be accessed electronically. In the Library this includes indexing and abstracting databases, citation databases or databases of full text journal articles.

History of Database 1890 – Herman Hollerith developed the world's first automated information processing equipment. 1960’s - The first database management systems were developed by Charles Bachman. 1980’s - The first commercial products, Oracle and DB2, did not appear until around 1980. 1990’s - innovation of Object-oriented database. 1970 - The relational model was proposed by E. F. Codd.

Database Choices IBM DB2 Oracle Database 10g Microsoft SQL server MySQL And more….

Database Choices - the 2004 market share Total : $7.8 billion U.S dollars The database market grew by 10.3 percent in 2004 According to numbers released by the Gartner Inc. in May 2005

Information Architects and Database-driven Website (1) Good design principles of Database reduce the maintenance cost. Good designs of IA lead to better reliability and performance. Combining Database with IA

Information architects and Database-driven Website (2) What you want to achieve with you website? Who is your target users? How many users? What kind of database is suitable for you?

Information architects and Database-driven Website (3) Database can provide faster access to data. Let your users use this function easily

Information Architects and Database-driven Website (4) Efficient Sorting

Conclusion Provide useful information. Good presentation. Answering feedback generated by the site. Not allowing a site to age. Tracking the success of the site. Maintaining your database.

References Build your own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL from http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-mysql-tutorial SQL Server 2005 Amid DBMS Market Dynamics from http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2004_12/magazine/columns/trends/ Market share analysis from http://www.olapreport.com/Market.htm IBM, Oracle Race for Database Dominance from http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1820629,00.asp Database Growth Slower but Steady from http://www.thestreet.com/tech/hardware/10225286.html A Short Database History from http://math.hws.edu/vaughn/cpsc/343/2003/history.html UNICCO enhances customer satisfaction with mobile workforce solution from IBM from http://www-306.ibm.com/ PHP & MySQL, Luke Welling and Laura Thomson The Rise of Relational Databases from http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/far/ch6.html

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