Data Structure Set Up

Table Setup Exercise

A non-profit needs to set up a database to track members and their membership payment.

Step 1

• What are they doing now?• What fields are needed?• Do we have the full name in one field or

should we use two?• What about the middle initial, prefix and

suffix?

Step 1 - continued

• Do we need a mailing address and a shipping address?

• Zip – will there be any members from outside the US?

• What is the level of expertise of the people that will be working with the database?

Step 1 - continued

• Questions asked – answers received• Did they generate more questions?• Can you develop the conceptual model?• Can you write a scope statement?

Step 2

• Fields needed• Grouping into tables