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Imagine that you have been hired as the database administrator for a
local department store. The department store has recently expanded by
opening five (5) stores within your local region. They have also
launched a series of marketing campaigns to attract new customers
and increase sales. For your hired role, you will be responsible for
creating and maintaining an enterprise-wide database system that will
hold the sales and inventory data for the organization. The designed
database will help operations in supporting its new business marketing
strategy. Using the concepts presented throughout the course, you will
develop a plan to create this database and establish a design that
aligns with the product sales initiatives of the organization.
Write a twelve to fifteen (12-15) page paper in which you:
1. Identify the potential sales and department store transactions that
can be stored within the database.
2. Design a database solution and the potential business rules that
could be used to house the sales transactions of the department store.
3. Evaluate all relationships of each entity within your database
solution using the Crow’s Foot notation. Include all data elements,
entities, relationships (such as 1:M, 1:1, M:N), and cardinalities for
the department store database in your diagram. Note: The graphically
depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
4. Research the Internet for best practices of how retail stores use
databases for retaining customers and increasing sales and complete
the following:
a. Justify how Big Data tools could be used for forecasting sales and
inventory of the department store.