MIS 205 Final Project SPRING 2014

Designing a Database
Database Submission Date: Wednesday 2nd April 2014

Database Defense Date: TBA

Your task is to create a fully functional database which can be used to answer any
and all relevant SQL Queries. I shall only provide brief guidelines and you are at full
liberty to design/modify your database in any way you see fit within logical
database boundaries.

Topic: Restaurant

Description: Mr. Smith has managed the Finances and is hoping to open a
small restaurant. He has rented a space in a busy commercial area which
is going to be the premises for the restaurant. Smith has decided to serve
Chinese and Thai food and has hired 2 cooks and a number of employees
(cleaners, waiters, security guards etc). Apart from Dine-In Services,
Smith has also decided that the restaurant will have:

Take-away/delivery system : Customer order taken by attendant. Food is

prepared. Food is Delivered to Customer provided address.

Privilege Customer Membership: Frequent Customer Information is recorded.

Special discounts and offers are sent to customers over phone or email.

Typical Tables that may be present in such a database:

Customer: Stores Customer Demographic Information (Repeat Customers and

Delivery Customers Only)

Employees: Demographic Information on Employees, (Cooks, Cleaners etc.)

Physical Premises: Information on Chairs, Tables, Music System and any other
physical properties belonging to the Restaurant.

Menu: Contains Information on the Food Served.

Payment: Information on Customer Payments (Only). Should also contain discount

information.

Orders: Records Dine-In and Take-Away orders made for food. May also contain
delivery Information.
Hints For Creating the Database:

A brief logical description of how this restaurant should work. Your

database should reflect the logical description.

Customers arrive at the Physical Premises, view the Menu and Order.
Orders are handled by different Employees. After their meal, a Payment
Bill is generated (after calculating any discounts) and the customer makes
the payment.

REMEMBER: YOU CAN ADD ADDITIONAL TABLES AND/OR REMOVE TABLES

FROM THE ONES I PRESCRIBED, PROVIDED THAT YOU ARE FOLLOWING
DATABASE RULE. JOINING/HUB TABLES CAN ALSO BE ADDED IF AND WHERE
NECESSARY. YOU HAVE FULL LIBERTY TO NAME THE
TABLES/FIELDS/RECORDS AS YOU PLEASE.

SQL Queries

After completion of the database, you should be able to answer at least

THREE (3) each (Total 12 SQL Statements) of the following groups of SQL
statements using your newly created database.

1. Simple queries: Be able to select any number of fields from a single table
and then narrow down the records based on specific criteria. You should also
be able to gather DISTINCT columns and ORDER them BY either ascending or
descending order. (3 Queries)

2. Complex queries: These queries are based on complex AND/OR operations

involving brackets where REQUIRED. (3 Queries)

3. Mathematical Queries: In these queries you will perform mathematical

operations on quantitative data inside your tables using SQL statements.
(Average, Sum, Min, Max, Count, Between etc) (3 Queries)

4. Wildcard Queries: Queries involving LIKE Operations. Make them as

complex as you can. Possibly by combining them with AND/OR Operations. (3
Queries)
 5. Joining Queries: Here you are required to join and extract relevant
information from several tables. More than two tables should be joined in
each query. However, you must join the tables for a valid reason and not just
for the sake of joining. (3 Queries)

Project Guidelines: What you need to do!

1. Design database (tables, primary key, foreign key, relationships) and

enter at least 10 valid/meaningful records in each table.

REMEMBER: Connecting Correct keys

REMEMBER: Minimizing Cyclic relationships
REMEMBER: Normalizing database so that each table includes only related
fields
REMEMBER: To make sure not to create a relationship that would
eventually result in repetition of primary keys.

2. Design SQL Queries

Design and successfully Run at least three from each section of SQL Queries
described above. What information you find is entirely up to you.

Save your queries inside the database.

3. Database submission

A few days prior to your presentation, you have to submit your newly created
database file and a word document (Inside a zip file). The word file should contain
your names and copy/pasted SQL statements from the database.

4. Presentation/Project Defense

You are required to defend your project on a specified day when I will ask individual
members about the structure of the database as well as the queries he/she has
worked on.

What your group has to do is split the 12 or more queries you created amongst each
other so that every member has some queries to present. All members must know
about the basic structure of the database. I will ask questions to each member
individually ONLY on the queries he/she has worked on. Scoring will be based on
entire groups performance.