COMP 0343: Advanced Database Administration

ASSIGNMENT 1

Date of Submission: 13 April 2011

Task 1 (10 marks)

You are requested to visit a company/organization/institution that uses a good database and networking
environment and investigate and present the following
a) What kind of database is being used by the company? Determine the need of selecting
that particular database.
b) Is there any correlation between the database used by the organization and their network
structure? Justify the same.
c) What is the operating system used in the database server and justify the use.
d) How the database system meeting information processing requirements of the
organization?
e) What is the role of the database in the company with reference to their intranet
communications?
f) What kind of risks they faced during the implementation and during the running of the
database and how the risks are mitigated?

Requirements

1. Prepare questionnaire and survey for collecting data from the organization

2. Summarize the details of interview and survey as a report in your answer. Critically
reflect what did you learn and how can you apply the same as a student of Advanced
DBA module. Provide your understanding with the information you received from
interviewee/ Survey in the light of class lectures and literature you receive for this
module.

Task 2 (05 marks)

Provide details of each component in detail and draw a diagram of database environment of
the organization you analyzed.
Task 3 (05 marks)
Investigate the different storage management strategies in PostgreSQL and Oracle RDBMS.
Which RDBMS provides effective storage management techniques? Justify your answer with
different examples. Make use of the college library or internet resources for your investigation.

Task 4 (05 marks)

Create a listener LISTENERNEW for a specific port number in the server. Establish a
connection to this server from a client using this listener. Stop this listener manually.
Investigate the contents of LISTENER.ORA
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Assessment Sheet – Basic Assignment Analysis:

Task 0/1 2/3/4 5/6/7/8 9/10 Mark

Task 1 Weak, major, Adequate very basic Good attempt. Very good solution.
Omission, little concept, Not enough
understanding of efforts in data But some Student brought
given tasks, Not collection, all data is information is details of a real
able to prove not real or overall missing or database
knowledge in this weak summarization irrelevant. environment which
tasks. Most of the of interview detail. supported his/ her
details are not learning and
relevant. enhanced his/ her
knowledge in the
area of DBA.

Or Information
provided is not
real.

0/1 2/3 4 5 Mark

Task 2 Weak or no Not adequately study Reasonably good Excellent efforts.

efforts. and research about effort. But did
the concept of not try to achieve Provided real details
database accuracy. Not a of database
environment. Too real environment environment.
many assumptions.
 Task 3 Weak or no Not adequately study Reasonably good Excellent efforts.
efforts. and research. Not effort. But did
enough study about not try to achieve Appropriate
the both RDBMS. accuracy. All examples are
information is not provided.
realistic.

Task 4 Weak or no Did not actually Reasonably good Excellent efforts

efforts. work in lab. effort. But did and the student has
not try to achieve shown the output.
accuracy.

Total
Marks
Penalty

Final
Marks

GUIDELINES:

Follow the guidelines mentioned below for your assignment.

 Soft copy also must be submitted through MOODLE as PDF file.

 Assignment should be typed and a hardcopy also to be submitted.
 Handwritten assignments will not be accepted
 Assignment should have a Title Page. Title Page should contain the following
information.
 Assignment Name
 Class
 Student name
 Student ID
 It should have Table of Contents
 Use page numbers
 Assignment should be typed in your own words using Times New Roman font size 12.
 Heading should be with Font Size 14, Bold, Underline
 Use Diagrams and Examples to explain your topic.
 Copy paste from the Internet is strictly not acceptable.
 Reference should be included in the last page as follows
 Author name, Book Title, Publisher, Year in case of books
 In case of web site references type the full path of the web page with referenced
date
  In case of magazines/ periodicals type article name, magazine name, Issue
Number and date
Rules & Regulations

 If any topic or diagram of an assignment is found copied from the others, then marks will be
deducted from both assignments.
 The purpose of assignment is to do some research work so you can consult books in Library or
use internet or computer magazines or any other source.
Plagiarism Policy

 Plagiarised documents, in parts or whole, submitted by the students will be rejected. For the first
offence of plagiarism, a student enrolled in undergraduate programme is penalised with a
deduction of 25% of the maximum marks on the assessment as per the plagiarism policy
statement and is allowed to re-submit the work once, within a week‘s period. The student has the
right to appeal against the decision made, to the respective Programme Coordinator. Further
appeal on decision taken may be made to the Head of the concerned department. If the student is
not satisfied by the decisions taken by the department, s/he can appeal to the Plagiarism Appeals
Committee.
 For the second offence of plagiarism against the student, (committed in any semester after the
semester of the student‘s first offence of plagiarism in the tenure of the student in the
undergraduate programme), the student is awarded zero in the assessment where plagiarised
content was found. The student is not allowed to re-submit the assessment. The student has the
right to appeal against the decision made to the respective Programme Coordinator. Further
appeal on decision taken may be made to the Head of the concerned department. If the student is
not satisfied by the decisions taken by the department, s/he can appeal to the Plagiarism Appeals
Committee.
 Repeated offences of plagiarism by the student (more than two times) are dealt with as per the
college policy on Academic Dishonesty as mentioned in the Student Handbook (6.2).
 All decisions on plagiarism related offences will be communicated to the student by the
respective module instructors, using routine channels of communication with students, currently
used by the college, preferably on the same day the charges are confirmed or the very next
working day.
 The student has the right to appeal against the decision informed by the module instructor to the
respective Programme Coordinator. Further appeal on decision taken may be made to the Head of
the concerned department. If the student is not satisfied by the decisions taken by the department,
s/he can appeal to the Plagiarism Appeals Committee.
 In certain cases, the student may be required to appear for an interview with the module
instructor, if deemed necessary.
 The maximum time limit given to a student to raise appeal against the charges of plagiarism is
two working days including the day on which the matter is informed to the student. It is
preferable that the appeals are made on the same day of the college on which the student is
informed of the issue. All appeals must be made during regular working hours of the college.

Late Submission

 Penalty for late submission - 5% of the maximum mark specified for the assessment will be
deducted for each working day.
 Assessment documents submitted beyond a period of one week after the last date of submission
will not be accepted and will be marked as zero for that assessment.