D ISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYNCHRONIZATION Name: Motshwanelo Meshack Surname: Taunyane Student no: Date: 03/04/07 Supervisor: Mr J Connan

P ROJECT PROPOSAL Introduction Distributed Database Synchronization support companies that want to replicate the same data in different location, as well as sharing the common subset of data from one database to another. For example ATM Machine Marks Administrator Point of Sale System I will illustrate my Project by using POS (Point of Sale System). POS System ensure that retailers have the correct merchandise in their store at the correct time and correct price.

P ROJECT PROPOSAL (C ONTINUE..) Problem Statement This is the problem that retailers encountered Lack of Stock Management Moving data to Local and Main backup sever Storage of Transaction Objectives I will like my project to do the following Data Synchronization Data Integration System fault tolerance Generate report tool

U SER REQUIREMENT Administrator Update System Check Inventory Teller Operator Store transaction

U SER REQUIREMENT (C ONTINUE..) IP Address Database Name User Name Password Table Name

R EQUIREMENT ANALYSIS

P ROJECT PLAN Date Task Status Term 1 Proposal User Requirement document Project Plan Requirement Analysis Complete Term 2 Prototype User interface Specification High level design Lower level design Not Complete Term 3 Full documented implementation refinement Not Complete Term 4 Testing and Evaluation criteria document Users guide Test Suite Demo Final Writeup Not Complete

REFERENCE [1] Roger S. Pressman, Software Engineering, Chapter 6, pg 170. [2] Peter Rob and Carlos Coronel, Database System, Chapter 8, pg 286 – 288. [3]

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