Produce a conceptual data model & a logical data model following given specs.

Description
Write SQL statements to complete specific tasks. Produce a supporting report.
Learning Outcomes
Covered in this LO1 Design a robust relational database schema using UML notations;
Assignment:

> MONDAY 30 OCTOBER 2023 at 13:00:00 – Part A.

DUE DATES
> MONDAY 20 November 2023 at 13:00:00 – Part A + Part B.

> MONDAY 30 OCTOBER 2023 at 13:00:00 – Part A.

DELIVERABLES One report in PDF format, font Calibri size 11
• 1 cover page for part A, student details & tutorial group.
• 1 side featuring conceptual EERD.
>> MONDAY
– Intermediary Report: Part
20 November 2023Aat 13:00:00 – Part A + Part B.– FINAL
One report in PDF format, font Calibri size 11
• 1 cover page for part A+B, student details & tutorial group.
• 1 side featuring Conceptual EERD.
• 5 Business Questions + 5 bullets points for Reflective Commentary.
REPORT: Part A + Part B
• 4 Data Dictionary tables supporting conceptual EERD.
• 1 side featuring Mapped Logical ERD.

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Coursework Part A: Conceptual EERD [50 Marks]

Part A Project Brief: Vacoliday

Vacoliday is a touristic company that offers high-end highly-customizable holidays, with a great emphasis on localness
and well-being, in Vacomedita, a lovely town on the Mediterranean coast.

Vacoliday has several residences around the town of Vacomedita which they use to accommodate holiday makers.
These residences offer two types of bookable accommodation: fully-integrated apartments and stand-alone rooms.
The apartments are typically larger with one or more bedrooms and other rooms like kitchens, bathrooms, washing
rooms, dining rooms, and lounges. The standalone rooms are essentially bedrooms with possibly an en-suite
bathroom.

The company offers various attractive meal options that can also be booked. Collective meals can be taken at specific
times at one of the stylish dining suites available at the Vacoliday residences. However, meals can also be delivered to
people’s accommodation, if pre-booked in advance.

Besides, Vacoliday offers a wide range of exciting bookable experiences. These experiences can take place on-site at a
specific residence or off-site, out and about the area surrounding Vacomedita. There are three main kinds of on-site
experiences: fitness classes (such as yoga, pilates or any other well-being physical activities) under the guidance of a
fitness instructor; craft workshops during which Vacoliday customers can learn a local craft with a workshop instructor;
and cooking classes for which holidaymakers are taught how to prepare local dishes by a chef. On the other hand, off-
site experiences are led by a guide and come mainly under two broad categories: excursions to places of interest and
walking hikes. Thus, hikes are on foot and involve walking in the countryside or wilderness around Vacomedita.
Excursions are run by a driver on a bus and allow the visiting of places of interest, beauty spots and other landmarks
across the stunning Vacomedita region.

In terms of staffing, Vacoliday relies on highly-trained employees with well-defined roles. Guides oversee all off-site
experiences. Drivers use their buses to accompany people on excursions. Chefs take care of meals but also teach
cooking classes. Housekeeping attendants are responsible for the good maintenance of their allocated
accommodations. Finally, instructors come under two groups: the fitness instructors who run the exercise classes for
well-being and the craft instructors who lead and deliver the workshops in which people learn exciting local craft skills.

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Part A Questions

You have been hired by Vacoliday as a Database Architect to undertake a database project to support the data needs
of the company. Your job in this first part is to investigate the Vacoliday company, produce a high-quality CONCEPTUAL
ENHANCED ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM (EERD) to support its data needs and document it with a data dictionary.

Prefix the names of all entities and attributes with your student id number starting with w (see end of doc).

QUESTION 1: INVESTIGATION, BUSINESS QUESTIONS & REFLECTIVE COMMENTARY (10 Marks)

a) Study the Vacoliday Project Brief very carefully and start identifying the building blocks of the Conceptual
EERD: entities, specialisations, relationships, multiplicities, attributes, and primary keys.

b) Formulate five Business Questions (BQs) for the Vacoliday’s Board of Directors to investigate the company
and clarify your understanding of the building blocks of the Conceptual EERD. Your questions must be
formulated in a way that is understandable to Managing Directors who do not have technical knowledge in
the field of database systems. Your questions must be unique and formulated by you only. Questions directed
at lecturers will not be accepted.

c) Post your five Business Questions on the Coursework Q&A Forum on Blackboard by Friday 27 October 2023
at 17:00:00. The forum is available at:
https://learning.westminster.ac.uk/ultra/courses/_94126_1/outline/discussion/_4709172_1?view=discussi
ons&courseId=_94126_1

d) Insert screenshots of your five Business Questions and the related answers in your report, clearly identifying
your full name.

e) Write a five bullet points-based Reflective Commentary to explain how each of your Business Questions
helped you clarify your understanding of the building blocks of the Conceptual EERD.

QUESTION 2: ENTITIES (08 Marks)

a) Identify and list the main entities for Vacoliday.

b) Create an Entity Data Dictionary Table to document the identified entities.

To produce this supporting documentation, fill in the table below to briefly explain each entity.

Entity name Brief Explanation

For more information, please refer to page 510 of the 6th edition of the Connolly’s textbook.

QUESTION 3: SPECIALISATIONS (07 Marks)

a) Identify and list the main specialisations for Vacoliday.

b) Create a Specialisation Data Dictionary Table to document the identified specialisations.

To produce this supporting documentation, fill in the table below to briefly explain each specialisation.

General entity Specialised entity Brief explanation

For more information, please refer to page 510 of the 6th edition of the Connolly’s textbook.
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QUESTION 4: RELATIONSHIPS & MULTIPLICITIES (15 Marks)

a) Identify the main relationships and multiplicities (participations + cardinalities) for Vacoliday.

b) Create a Relationship & Multiplicities Data Dictionary Table to document the identified relationships and
associated multiplicities.
To produce this supporting documentation, fill in the table below to briefly explain the relationships and
multiplicities.

Brief justifications for the multiplicity

Entity name Multiplicity Relationship Multiplicity Entity name
(4 statements for each relationship)

For more information, please refer to page 513 of the 6th edition of the Connolly’s textbook.

QUESTION 5: ATTRIBUTES & PRIMARY KEYS (5 Marks)

a) Identify the main attributes and primary keys (PKs) of the entities for Vacoliday.

b) Create an Attributes Data Dictionary Table to document the identified attributes and primary keys.
To produce this supporting documentation, fill in the table below to briefly explain the attributes and primary
keys identified for each entity.

Entity name Attributes for each entity (include PK) Brief explanation

For more information, please refer to page 516 of the 6th edition of the Connolly’s textbook.

QUESTION 6: CONCEPTUAL EERD QUALITY & NOTATIONS (5 Marks)

Produce a complete high-quality CONCEPTUAL EERD for Vacoliday. This CONCEPTUAL EERD needs to include
all the identified entities, specialisations, relationships, multiplicities, attributes, and primary keys.

• It should fit on one page of the report and be easy to read.

• It should use UML notations as learnt in this module and no other notations.
• The use of non-UML notations will be penalised and marks will be deducted.
• The names of all entities & attributes should be prefixed with the student id number starting with w.
• The diagram is ultimately what is being assessed. The absence of a diagram will lead to zero marks.

Reminder: Using the Coursework Q&A Forum

To provide you with the support you need as a Database Architect and answer any questions you may have about the
Vacoliday brief, an interactive Q&A is offered. This allows you to ask specific questions to the Vacoliday Board of
Directors about the Vacoliday business so that to improve your understanding of the business and your conceptual
EERD. Questions must be asked by by Friday 27 October 2023 at 17:00:00 on the Blackboard Coursework Q&A Forum:
https://learning.westminster.ac.uk/ultra/courses/_94126_1/outline/discussion/_4709172_1?view=discussions&cour
seId=_94126_1
(Questions sent by email will not be accepted)
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Part A Marks Allocation

Part A will be marked based on the following marking criteria:

Marking Criteria Marks

Relevance and correct formulation of questions & solid justifications of the use of answers 10

Correct identification of entities 08

Correct identification of specialisations 07

Correct identification of relationships & multiplicities 15

Correct identification of attributes & primary keys 05

High quality of representation of the conceptual EERD and correct use of UML notations 05

PART A TOTAL 50

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Coursework Part B: Logical ERD [50 Marks]

Part B Project Brief: Tourmato

Tourmato is a touristic company that offers exciting “off-the-beaten track” visiting tours around several cities across
Europe. Essentially, Tourmato takes groups of customers around European cities to visit them and experience their
unique atmospheres, under the direction of a local experienced tour guide. To provide a range of experiences, every
city covered by Tourmato offers many visiting tours. A tour session is a visiting tour that has been assigned a specific
start date and time, a start address, an end date and time, an end address and a specific price. Tourmato customers
can place a booking for a variety of exciting tour sessions, depending on what they like.

The conceptual EERD for Tourmato is given in Figure 1 (see next page).

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Figure 1. Conceptual EERD for Tourmato

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Part B Questions

You have been hired by Tourmato as a Database Consultant to undertake a database project to support the data
needs of the firm. In this second part, you are given a conceptual data model for Tourmato (figure 1), and your first
goal is to map it onto a high-quality LOGICAL ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM (ERD) to logically represent how the
key business data needs can be organised as a set of interrelated tables that can then be implemented. These tables
need to be interconnected according to the strict rules of the relational model to be implementable.

Prefix the names of all tables and attributes with your student id number starting with w (see end of doc).

QUESTION 7: MAPPING CONCEPTUAL EERD TO LOGICAL ERD (50 Marks)

Map the Conceptual EERD given on figure 1 to produce a complete LOGICAL ERD for Tourmato.
This LOGICAL ERD needs to include all the correct tables, relationships, multiplicity constraints, attributes,
primary keys and foreign keys. It should be easy to read and needs to fit on one page of the report.

• It should fit on one page of the report and be easy to read.

• It should use UML notations as learnt in this module and no other notations.
• The use of non-UML notations will be penalised and marks will be deducted.
• The names of all tables & columns should be prefixed with the student id number starting with w.
• The diagram is ultimately what is being assessed. The absence of a diagram will lead to zero marks.

Part B Marks Allocation

Part B will be marked based on the following marking criteria:

Marking Criteria Marks

Clarity, formatting, and structure of the logical ERD with correct UML notations 05

Correct mapping of specialisations 25

Correct mapping of many-to-many relationships 12

Correct mapping of one-to-many relationships 06

Correct mapping of one-to-one relationships 02

PART B TOTAL 50

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 KEY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ENTIRE COURSEWORK

• Only UML notations are accepted for this coursework, as introduced in this module.
• You need to prefix all your entities, tables, and attributes with “w + the 7 digits of your ID number” as provided
by the University, both for Part A (Vacoliday Conceptual EERD) and Part B (Tourmato Logical ERD).
• Failure to use UML notations and to prefix entities, tables and attributes with an ID number will be penalised
and marks will be deducted.

For example, if my name is Francois Roubert and my ID number is w1234567, when I identify the entity or table
“Module” and its attributes “moduleCode”, “moduleName” and “moduleType”, I will have to represent it this
way:

End of Document

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