annotated bibliography

Research and select a minimum of 15 relevant, current, and academic sources that support the following;

• Evaluate and interpret the significant theories, events, and literature that lead to the evolution of

current generation database technologies.

Classify advantages of a database management system and critique the role it plays in the storage, retrieval, and management of data in our world.

• Deconstruct and compare multiple types of data models and understand the significance of

each; including newly emerging data models such as Bid Data and NoSQL.

• Identify the importance of data models in database design and the corresponding data

abstraction levels.

• Explore the relational database model and its components.

• Illustrate by example the role of transaction management and concurrency control in the database.

• Discriminate between the appropriate use of Structured Query Language (SQL) data definition

language, data manipulation language, and data control language by explaining and demonstrating their

use, syntactical format, and implementation.

• Integrate normalization and data modeling techniques to create entity-relationship (ER) diagrams that

will be used to create database schemas.

• Design and implement a functioning relational database utilizing the sequential phases of a

structured database development life cycle.

• Compare and contrast the role and responsibility of a database administrator with that of a

database software developer.

Categorize the differences between a distributed database management system and a local

database management system.

• Investigate data warehousing, Web database development, Business Intelligence (BI) and middleware

architectures.

• Demonstrate graduate level writing and research skills while adhering to the American

Psychological Association (APA) guidelines

Your annotations should be one paragraph to include a synopsis of the publications content, the relevance of the source, a statement of how the reference applies to the course of study, and other relevant statements that confirm the application of the entry to the coursework.

Each annotated bibliography entry should contain the following three elements:

A bibliographic citation in APA format

A two to four sentence summary

A one or two sentence critical evaluation