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COURSE TITLE DATABASE SYSTEMS COURSE CODE CS203

INSTRUCTOR Dr. EJAZ AHMED TYPE  (Please tick)

ASSIGNMENT Lab Project –PAK Post Services

HAND OUT DATE 08-APR-2019 DUE DATE 25-APR-2019

ESTIMATE TIME 28 Hours

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA (or attached) % Mark

Instructions to Candidates:
Grade Distribution is Attached

Submission: Print & online slate followed by Demo/ presentation

Tools: Oracle Database & PHP

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Objective:
Enable the student to design and develop a database. In this project, the students are required to
show their abilities of:
 Analyzing the System Requirement
 Represent the requirement into logical design using Entity Relationship (ER) or/and
Enhanced Entity Relationship (EER) model
 Mapping the designed model into relational schemas
 Transform the relational schemas into normalized tables (Normalization)
 Writing DDL SQL statements to creates the tables including all applied integrity
constraints
 Writing SQL statements to populate the initial records of each table (DataSets)
 Front End Development of Forms/ Reports using PHP & Oracle database

Case Brief

Pakistan Post Courier Service

1. Introduction

The PPost wishes to develop a database system. The PPost is organized in the following way.

There are number of post offices and collection centers each of which processes documents/ parcels
to deliver such as letters, packets etc. Mail has various services such as same day, one day, urgent and
regular. Invoice will be issued for every parcel. Tickets/ stamps will be solved without invoice but
one invoice will be issued for all stamps sold in a day. Reports can show various categories of
various parcels and tickets.

Staff is working who is managing all types of mail services. Head of each PPost will finalize
financial collections each day and submit to local GPO of each city. PPost handles returned and
bounced mails as well. Insurance Policy can be managed for safe mail of parcels as an option for
customer.

Customer (Senders) can track his/ her mail on internet with all confirmations and expected duration.
Senders and recipient address will also store in the database system for future purpose. Search can be
managed with some choices to extract data of Customers along with financial collections.

At present the PPost has a manual record system but this needs rationalization. It is hoped that the
new computerized system will remove data redundancy.

Scope of this project can be determined with the help of below reports and forms.
2. The following records are kept:

Customer can search and track his/ her parcel with the following details

Form: Tracking Parcel

In case if tracking number is not available, then new system can facilitate customer to find out an
actual tracking record.
Form & Report:
PPost Customer Transactions

Customer Name: CustID:

Address: City:

Mobile#: CNIC:

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Parcel Information

Tracking/ Description Qty RecipientName RecAddress City Status Date

Report
PPost Branch Yearly Funds Collections

Year: 2018

Branch#: Name:

Manager Name:

No of Collections Month AmountCollected AmountReturned NetAmount

Total of each column is also required

Items %
10 most suitable Questions for relationships 10
ER and/or EER diagram 20
Relational Schemas/ Mapping 10
Datasets with all possible scenarios 10
DDL & Constraints 10
Forms & Reports 20
Presentation (DEMO) 20
T O TAL 100

Note: Only give forms & reports must be developed using php. Other forms & reports are likely to be
required but those will not be graded. All learning concepts need to be applied as you have studied in
this course.