Computing

Faculty of Arts, Science, and Technology

BSc (Hons) Computing, BSc (Hons) Computer Science
Level: 6

Module: COM641 Distributed Data & Data Analytics

Assignment: 1

Issue Date: 09.01.2023

Review Date: Tutorial Sessions

Submission Dates: 05.02.2023

Estimated Completion time: 72 Hours

Lecturer: Ms hajrah jahan

Verified by: Dr Sanjay Batheja

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COM641: Assignment 1
The assignment will entail reading a range of academic papers, journals and books. You will
be writing reports and designing Distributed Database Systems and Data Warehouse
Systems.

Tasks

Task 1: Distributed Database Design (30%)

Happy Cruise Lines is a cruise company with several ships and a variety of cruise itineraries,
each involving several ports of call. The company headquarters is in New York and has
regional offices in the cruise port cities of Miami, Houston, and Los Angeles.
The company maintains information on ships, cruises, ports, passengers and voyages.
CRUISE is a particular sailing of a ship on a particular date. VISITS records the ships visits
to the ports during the cruise. VOYAGE records the passengers for a cruise. Given below is
the snapshot of Happy Cruise Lines’ database which lists the attributes for each entity along
with the primary key and foreign keys.

SHIPS: (SHIPNUM, SHIPNAME, BUILDER, LAUNCHDATE, WEIGHT)

PASSENGER: (PASSENGERNUM, PASSENGERNAME, SOCIALSECNUM,
STATE, COUNTRY)
PORT: (PORTNUM, COUNTRY, NUMDOCKS, MANAGER)
CRUISE: (CRUISENUM, STARTDATE, ENDDATE, DIRECTOR, SHIPNUM)
VISIT: (CRUISENUM, PORTNUM, COUNTRY, ARRDATE, DEPTDATE)
VOYAGE: (PASSENGERNUM, CRUISENUM, ROOMNUM, FARE)

SHIPS: The Company has 20 ships and the details of these ships are used in every office.
CRUISE: There are around 4000 cruise records; cruise records are used most heavily in the
cities from which the cruise described in the record began.
PORT: There are 42 records in the port table. The records describe Atlantic Ocean ports that
are used most heavily in New York and Miami. The records that describe Caribbean
Seaports are used most heavily in Houston and Miami. The records that describe Pacific
Ocean ports are used most heavily in Los Angeles.
VISIT: Consists of 15,000 records and is primarily used in the New York (headquarters) and
Los Angeles.
PASSENGER: Consists of 230,000 records and is primarily used in New York
(headquarters) and Los Angeles offices.
VOYAGE: Consists of 720,000 records and is used in all four offices.
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a. Write a report evaluating various data distribution options for Happy Cruise Lines over
a Distributed Databases System. Your report should critically select an appropriate data
distribution solution for Happy Cruise Lines with justifiable reasons.
20% (Approx. 750 words)
b. Design a data distribution scheme in line with your solution
10% (Design Diagram)

Task 2: Data Warehouse Design (20%)

Millennium College offers several courses in different subject (Major) areas. Courses are
managed by professors who are employed in different departments. The college records the
course details, student details and their results. The college decides to implement a data
warehouse. One of the requirements is to record grades for courses completed by students.
Initial analysis identified the following dimensions:
CourseSection: CourseID, CourseName, Units, SectionNumber, RoomID,
RoomCapacity. (During a given Semester the college offers an average of 500
course sections).
Professor: ProfID, ProfName, Title, DepartmentID, DepartmentName. (There are
around 200 professors)
Student: StudentID, StudentName, Major. (Each course section has an average of
40 students, each student may take up to 5 course sections per period).
Period: SemesterID, Year (the College follows a trimester system, and it has records
for the last 10 years.)

a. Design a Star Schema for modelling the data warehouse for Millennium College. Ensure
every dimension have an appropriate Primary Key. You must identify the FACT table
with appropriate details (facts) and keys for the dimensions. Assign an appropriate name
for the FACT table.

b. Using the principles of normalisation convert the Star Schema to a Snowflake Schema.

Task 3: Procedure, Functions Triggers and Active Rules in Oracle 50%

Recently you have been appointed as a Database Administrator (DBA) in a University. As

part of your job, you have to manage, monitor and log the database activities in their Student
Management Database. The University needs to record the details of the students, courses,
enrolment, grades, staff and sessions (sections). You must restrict data updates to working
hours to protect the data.

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You may have to add more sample data to test the functionalities of your procedures and to
produce meaningful test reports.

Task 3.a: Grade Report:

The University needs to produce different reports related to the course, students and their
performance, results etc.

I. University has to produce the Final Mark sheet for students. This should display
student details, description of the courses that a student has enrolled on, Final Mark
they have received for that course. Final marks must be calculated considering
different types of assessment (quiz, examination, mid-term etc.), the number of
assessments of the given type (3 quizzes) and their percentages towards the final
grade.

10%

II. The University likes to get statistical reports on courses which include the description
of the course, sections start date, name of the instructor who manages the section,
number of students enrolled for section, the highest mark, lowest mark, average
mark, standard deviation, number of 1st (Final mark: 80 -100), 2nd (Final mark: 70 –
79), 3rd (Final mark: 60 – 69) number of failures (Final mark: 1 -59) etc.

10%

III. University likes to perform location-based analysis on recruitment, student progress

etc.

a. Using the data from relevant tables, produce a report listing the number of
students enrolled on specific courses, by state, city and postcode. You should
be able to list popular courses by your preferred location details (i.e., by
State, City or PostCode)

b. Produce a report detailing the results that the students achieved, display the
results by state, city and postcode, You should be able to provide the highest
performing course by state, city and postcode area as requested by the
University.

(a & b - 20%)

Create appropriate PL/SQL procedures to produce the above-listed reports. Please

ensure that all necessary details are included and displayed in the report.

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Task 3.b: Active Rules Using Triggers

I. The University student data centre that is responsible for entering student details and
enrolment details works from Monday 9.00 am – Friday 5.00 pm. The system must
be protected (don’t allow any changes on appropriate tables) and only allow
minimum operations from Friday 5.00 pm to Monday 8:00 am. For example, students’
details or enrolment details are only added or amended during office hours.
Database activities are monitored all the time, create an active rule to stop such
activities and display appropriate messages.

5%

II. University can only accommodate a limited number of students for each section.
Create an active rule to display an appropriate message on the screen to warn the
DBA while the enrolment is nearing its capacity and also when it has reached the
capacity limit.

5%

Guidance

Students will get assistance to complete the tasks through the tutorial sessions. Drafts will
be reviewed and formative feedback will be given in the tutorial sessions. So you are
much less likely to obtain a good grade if you don’t attend the tutorial sessions.
Support your work with relevant references from books, journals and other quality
information resources using the IEEE Referencing system.

Failure to complete any of the above tasks or sub-tasks in time will result in a loss of
marks.

Submission

The assignment should be word-processed. This specification document should be filed at

the front of the assignment, with the front sheet (with your Name, Student Number, Date and
Signature) visible at the front.

Work must be word-processed and submitted as a single file consisting of both Task 1
and Task2 via Turnitin link provided through VLE (Moodle) by 26th November 2021.
The Glyndwr policy on assignment submission will be rigidly adhered to (see your
Student Handbook).

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Task 1:
Report and diagram – Word processed
Task 2:
• PL/SQL Scripts for procedures and Triggers
• Test scripts (execution blocks for Procedures, SQL statements for Triggers) to
test the procedures and triggers.
• Test results, take screenshots where necessary.
Also for Task 2 ensure the required tables, data, procedures and triggers are all created in
the University Oracle server

Learning Outcomes

1. Critically assess some of the more advanced developments in database technology.

e.g. Stored Procedures and Functions

2. Evaluate the current issues associated with theory to practical implementations in

database research.

3. Explore advanced aspects of data warehousing, distributed data, data science and
data analytics encompassing the principles, research results and commercial
application of the technologies.

Key skills for employability:

1. Written, oral and media communication skills

2. Leadership, team working and networking skills
3. Opportunity, creativity and problem-solving skills
4. Information technology skills and digital literacy
5. Information management skills
6. Research skills
7. Intercultural and sustainability skills
8. Career management skills
9. Learning to learn (managing personal and professional development, self-
management)
10. Numeracy

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Assessment Criteria

In order to achieve an A grade, the work must be excellent in almost all respects, with only
very minor limitations.

In order to achieve a B+ grade, the work should show strength in most respects, but perhaps
has limitations in one or two areas. A good piece of work nevertheless.

In order to achieve a B grade, the work should be of a satisfactory standard, showing

strength in some areas, but perhaps let down by poor presentation, poor practical work, or
poor written explanations where required.

In order to achieve a C grade, the work should be of a satisfactory standard but may have
significant shortcomings in some areas. Nevertheless shows at least a basic understanding
of the concepts and a basic practical ability.

A Refer grade will be given to work that is just unsatisfactory