Title: Week 13
Course: Introduction to Database Management Systems

Database Administration

The topic aims to lay a foundation for database administration for beginners. It exposes you to the basic concepts for database administration with demonstrations of the application of database administration.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the week, you will be able to:
1. Describe basic concepts for database administration.
2. Demonstrate the application of basic database administration.

Over to you
This section involves you looking through the learning resources and making short notes of what you have learned. Thereafter, you will work on the e-tivities to demonstrate whether you understood and internalized the content.

Pre-Topic
Students need to have covered all the preceding topics of the course

Due date Tuesday 23:59

FACE-TO-FACE

- Question and Answer session based on the weeks’ notes.
- Think, pair, share the concepts covered in the YouTube video.

E-TIVITIES

E-tivity 13.1 (Mandatory)
This e-tivity is set to estimate your understanding of the requirements for database administration. You are required to undertake the following tasks:

Task 1

- Watch the video provided for this week that gives an overview of database administration. As you watch this video, create a mind map that outlines the various facets of database administration. You should also identify different users required to administer a database as you add them to your mind map.
- Do an internet search on the various real-life applications of databases. Using the mind map you have created, notate it as you show the applications you unearthed during your internet search.
- Take an image or snip the mind map that you have created and post it in the discussion forum.

Task 2

- Based on the student groupings from the previous week, review your peers’ mind maps. The following questions should guide you in the peer review:

1. Are there roles within database administrations that you overlooked? Which ones?
2. What are the main differences between your post and your peers in regard to the applications of database administration?

 Task 3

- Having concluded Task 1 and Task 2 above, enhance your mind map with comments provided by your peers and your observations from your peers’ mind maps. Place an image of your initials mind map and the enhanced mind map in an MS-Word document for submission. Be sure to label the two mind maps appropriately for the instructor to differentiate them.

Task 1 due date Wednesday 23:59
Task 2 due date Friday 23:59
Task 3 due date Sunday 23:59
Estimated study time: 6.5 hours

Keep a copy of your work in your e-portfolio folder.
ASSESSMENT