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Week 5 Assignment 1: Discussion Assignment
The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week based on the course competencies covered.
To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use outside sources. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
Database Concurrency Control and Data Security
In this assignment, you will analyze database concurrency control and data security. You will also study the technological advances in the field of database design.
Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research the following:
- Database concurrency control and data security
- DBA tasks
- Technological advances in the field of databases
Based on your research and understanding, complete the following tasks:
- Outline three examples of databases that you use every day. For each database:
- Describe how the data is displayed and extracted.
- Based on what you have learned so far, discuss how you think the DBMS provides this functionality in the background.
- Analyze three websites and outline your thoughts on how databases are used to provide information and data to the consumers of the websites.
- Compare the database designs of the three websites in terms of their features, performance, and usability.
- Highlight the information that you feel is worthy of a special mention.
- What should be completed first—application design or database design; or should they be completed at the same time? Provide sufficient reasoning to support your answer.
- "Web programming has an inherent problem with concurrency control." Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?
- Discuss the possible solutions to resolve and manage concurrency control.
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Running Head: Database Concurrency Control and Data Security
Week 5 Assignment 1: Discussion Assignment
Data is a corporate resource in any organization and hence it must be carefully managed. It is
very important for any organization to protect their data peculiar issues termed as database
control issues. The main database control issues include database security which involves
protecting data from being stolen, and malicious attacks that may change or destroy the data,
backup and recovery which refers to the process of keeping a copy of data and using it to
recreate data that have been lost, concurrency control which involves problems that arises
when two or more users try to update a piece of data in a database simultaneously.
In the current world, there has to be a database in almost every activity we do. These database
stores helpful information that can be used to track all our activities. Examples of commonly
used database includes;
Search engines
We may not realize this but the fact remains that we use search engine databases every time
we search information from the internet. Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Altavista are just some of
the many search engines we use every day. Search engines catalogue the contents of every
web page on the internet. When we enter a keyword into our search engine, it filters all the
contents of the web pages to find every result that matches our keyword. This information is
then presented to us in form of a list.
Cell service providers
Cell service providers have some complex system...
