DBM 380 - Art Museum Database Design and Development - Week 4

The following assignment is based on the database environment chosen and created in the Week Three Individual Assignment.

Your database project must meet the following assessment requirements:

Design and develop a database using professional principles and standards.

• Provide a logical and physical design of the database.
• Use relational database software application to develop database.
• Provide an entity relationship diagram.
• Normalize the database.
• Generate and provide test data.

Use a Microsoft^® Visio^® diagram to normalize the ERD to third normal form (3NF).

Use the Microsoft^® Access^® database created in Week Three to create a minimum of 10 rows of test data in each table. Also, create at least one query that joins two tables and returns values from both tables.

Note. Only the Microsoft^® Visio^® diagram must be normalized to the 3NF. The 3NF is not required for a Microsoft^® Access^® database.

Write a 200- to 300-word short-answer response for the following:

• In your own words, describe the nature and purpose of the normalization process. Provide some examples from sources other than the readings