BTEC ICT 2016

UNIT 10- Database

By Usman Ali

What is a Database ?
A database is a collection of information that is
organized so that it can easily be accessed,
managed, and updated. In one
view, databases can be classified according to
types of content: bibliographic, full-text,
numeric, and images.

Where can Databases be used ?

Schools
Hospitals
Airports
Police Station
Shopping Malls

What 2 Databases will we be looking at ?

School Database:
used in schools to monitor students attendance, punctuality,
behaviour and etc.

Police Station:
used in police stations to keep records of prisoners.

Sims

Database Questions for a Sims user

1. is it effective?
2. is it easy to use?
3. is it reliable?
4. How is it used in school?
5. How often do you use it?
6. Has it ever let you down?
7. What tables are used?

8. Is it easy to access?
9. How effective is the security?
10. Have you ever used any alternatives?

Database Answers for a Sims user

1. Yes, because it gives me information on staff and students.
2. Yes, but you need training.
3. Yes most of the time it is, but some times it needs updates so it may be slow.
4. Used by teachers to register children see what lessons they have and also has all the
information about each student to use if needed e.g. contact numbers.
5. Every school day it is used
6. Yes when it updates it will not work as efficiently as it meant to .
7. Students, rooms, staff, lessons and etc. .
8. in school yes and it can also be accessed from home but it not work as efficiently.
9. it is very effective because different users have different access rights.
10. No I've always had Sims.

Database Questions for a police officer

1. is it effective?
2. is it easy to use?
3. is it reliable?
4. How is it used in the police station?
5. How often do you use it?
6. Has it ever let you down?

7. Is it easy to access?
8. How effective is the security?
9. Have you ever used any alternatives ?

Database Answers for a Sims user

1. Yes, because it allows you to get information about a person or suspect instantly.
2. Yes but you will need to do a 5 month course to be able to use it efficiently.
3. Some times, but can take time to load as it is a very old software.
4. It used to search information on a particular person and also to record data about a current
criminal or suspect.
5. It is used on a daily basis, and every 5 minutes by the dispatchers to see if a person has a
criminal record.
6. It constantly lets you down as police computers are very old and also have a slow system.
7. Yes but he will need to insert a unique username and password because he has different access
rights to people actually in the office and at the computers (dispatchers).
8. The security is very high but if someone constantly tried to hack the database system there is a
90% chance they will succeed.
9. There aren't any alternatives .

The Police National Computer Database

The Police National Computer (PNC) is a computer system used extensively by law enforcement
organisations across the United Kingdom.

It went live in 1974 and now has several databases available 24 hours a day, giving access to information of
national and local significance to the public.

You can access PNC 24 hours day 7 days a week.

From October 2009, the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) stated that there were over 9.2
million (personal) records, 52 million driver records, 55 million vehicle records and that 185million
transactions were mad in the last 12months.

The PNC started with a Stolen vehicles database.

The PNC is a computer system used greatly by law enforcement organisations across the United Kingdom.

There are 4 databases, which are called Names File, Vehicle File , Property File , Drivers File.

The Names file allows you to see a large amount of information about people who have been convicted,
cautioned or recently arrested. The Vehicle files Provides details on the registered keeper of a motor
vehicle, as well as storing other information from the DVLA as to the vehicle's status (Tax Expired, V23
Submitted, Stolen, Chassis Number, Engine Number etc.) The Property files will allow us to see types
of stolen and found property's, this can be placed onto the PNC system. The Drivers File contains
information on 48 million people who either hold a driving licence or are disqualified from holding one. The
record will contain information relating to test passes, endorsements and the licence entitlements.

The Police Crime Map

The police will be able to see what crime s have been committed in neighborhoods across the
capital. And what boroughs have the highest and lowest rate of crime.
The different access rights are , the police are able to open criminal profiles and change the
data when needed to , where as the public can only see the crime rate in the city and crime
rates for different types of crimes.
The security issues are that there is a chance of the website being hacked by an anonymous
person. That person can hack into the website and change the original data. Also burglars can
use this data to see which areas have the lowest crime rate and which are the easiest to target
for example Harrow is a place where the crime rate is below average therefore burglars will
attempt to burgle houses in that particular area.