1. Unit 6 Research Project Eddie S. Jackson Kaplan University IT525: Database Design and Data Modeling 06/15/2014

2. Summary  Robot Emporium needs a database  Sells robot parts  Manage customer information  Employees must manage orders  Shipment must be a part of the database

3. Entities  Customer  Order  Order Items  Product  Employee  Shipment  Invoice

4. Business Rules  There are four business rules  Customer - Invoice  Order - Products  Employee - Customer  Employee - Shipments

5. Normalization  There are 3 normalization forms used in this database design  First Form  Second Form  Third Form

6. Database Changes  Try to reduce unnecessary null entries  Remove the relationship between Product and Shipment

7. Database Changes - ERD

8. Lessons Learned 1 of 2  RDBMS  Entities  Tables  Attributes  Relationships

9. Lessons Learned 2 of 2  Crow’s Foot Notation  Many-to-Many  One-to-One  One-to-Many

10. Reference 3ders. (n.d.). Robot Shop. Retrieved from http://www.3ders.org/images/robotshop- 3d-printing-service.jpg Coronel, C., Morris, S., & Rob, P. (2012). Database systems: design, implementation, and management (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. Staff, Borland. (n.d.). The definition of first, second, third, fourth and fifth normal forms. Retrieved http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/25209.