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InfoMan Week 4 Data Types and DB Principles2024

The document outlines the learning outcomes for a course on Data Types and Database Principles, focusing on identifying data types, primary keys, and analyzing database design principles. It details various data types such as CHARACTER, VARCHAR, BOOLEAN, INTEGER, DATE, and TIME, along with their valid and invalid examples. Additionally, it discusses the stages of database design: conceptual, logical, and physical, and includes group activities for collaborative learning.

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InfoMan Week 4 Data Types and DB Principles2024

The document outlines the learning outcomes for a course on Data Types and Database Principles, focusing on identifying data types, primary keys, and analyzing database design principles. It details various data types such as CHARACTER, VARCHAR, BOOLEAN, INTEGER, DATE, and TIME, along with their valid and invalid examples. Additionally, it discusses the stages of database design: conceptual, logical, and physical, and includes group activities for collaborative learning.

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AY 2024-2025

INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT

Prepared By:

Prof. Jomariss B. Plan, MSIT, SMRIIT


CCS Faculty
Data Types and
Database Principles
Learning Outcome
At the end of the topic session, the students should be
able to:

• Identify data types and explain the design view and


primary keys.
• Analyze the database design principles.
 Data types define what type of data a column can
contain.
 Each column in a database table is required to have a
name and a data type.
CHARACTER [(length)] or CHAR [(length)]
 The CHARACTER data type accepts
character strings, including Unicode, of
a fixed length. The length of the
character string should be specified in
the data type declaration; for example,
CHARACTER(n) where n represents the
desired length of the character string.
If no length is specified during the
declaration, the default length is 1.
CHAR(10) or CHARACTER(10)
•Valid
'Race car'
'RACECAR'
'24865'
'1998-10-25'
'1998-10-25 ' (Blank characters are truncated)
•Invalid
24865
1998-10-25
'Date: 1998-10-25'
VARCHAR (length)
 The VARCHAR data type accepts character
strings, including Unicode, of a variable length is
up to the maximum length specified in the data
type declaration.
 A VARCHAR declaration must include a positive
integer in parentheses to define the maximum
allowable character string length. For example,
VARCHAR(n) can accept any length of character
string up to n characters in length.
Varchar Examples:
VARCHAR(10)
•Valid
'Race car'
'RACECAR'
'24865'
'1998-10-25'
'1998-10-25 ' (Blank characters are truncated)
•Invalid
24865
1998-10-25
'Date: 1998-10-25'
Boolean
 The BOOLEAN data type supports the storage of
two values: TRUE or FALSE. No parameters are
required when declaring a BOOLEAN data type.

Valid Invalid
TRUE 1
true 0
True Yes
False No
Integer or int
 The INTEGER data type accepts numeric values
with an implied scale of zero.
 It stores any integer value between the range 2^
-31 and 2^31 -1
Valid Invalid
-2147483648 -1,025,234,000,367
-1025 -2147483649
2147483648
0
1,025,234,000,367
1025.98 (digits to the
right of the decimal
point are truncated)
2147483647
Date
 The DATE data type accepts date values. No
parameters are required when declaring a DATE
data type. Date values should be specified in the
form: YYYY-MM-DD.
 Month values must be between 1 and 12, day
values should be between 1 and 31 depending
on the month and year values should be
between 0 and 9999.
Examples

Valid
DATE '1999-01-01'
DATE '2000-2-2'
date '0-1-1'

Invalid
DATE '1999-13-1'
date '2000-2-30'
'2000-2-27'
date 2000-2-27
Time
 The TIME data type accepts time values. No
parameters are required when declaring a TIME
data type. Time values should be specified in
the form: HH:MM:SS
 The minutes and seconds values must be two
digits. Hour values should be between zero 0
and 23, minute values should be between 00
and 59 and second values should be between 00
and 61.999999.
Examples

Valid
TIME '00:00:00'
TIME '1:00:00'
TIME '23:59:59'
time '23:59:59.99'
Invalid
TIME '00:62:00'
TIME '00:3:00'
TIME '23:01'
'24:01:00'
Design View
Most Access objects are displayed in
Design view, which allows you to work with
the underlying structure of your tables,
queries, forms, and reports. To create a
new table in Design view, you define the
fields that will comprise the table before
you enter any data.
In Design view for tables, each row
corresponds to a field. You can edit, insert,
and delete fields in your database tables in
Design view. You insert a field by adding a
row, while you delete a field by removing a
row. You can also change field order by
dragging a row selector to a new position.
How to Create a Table in Design View
in Access 2016
Database Design
Designing a database is a process that
involves developing and refining a
database structure based on the
requirements of your business.
Database design includes the following
three stages:
1. Conceptual
2. Logical
3. Physical
Conceptual Design
The purpose of the conceptual design
phase is to build a conceptual model
based upon the previously identified
requirements, but closer to the final
physical model. A commonly-used
conceptual model is called an entity-
relationship model.
Entities and Attributes
Entities are basically people, places, or
things you want to keep information
about.
For example, a library system may have
the book, library and borrower entities
The following are examples of entities
involving a university with possible attributes
in parentheses.
Course (name, code, course prerequisites)
Student (first_name, surname, address, age)
Book (title, ISBN, price, quantity in stock)
Logical Design
This is the process of deciding how to
arrange the attributes of the entities in
a given business environment into
database structures, such as the tables
of a relational database.
Physical Design
Physical ERD represents the actual design
blueprint of a relational database. It
represents how data should be structured
and related in a specific DBMS so it is
important to consider the convention and
restriction of the DBMS you use when you
are designing a physical ERD.
Activity (Online Collaboration)

Group activity – Part 1 (20 points)

• List down other data types (not


mentioned in our discussion) with
corresponding valid examples.
Activity (Online Collaboration)

Group activity – Part 2 (30 points)


• Identify the different attributes for each
given entity below:
o Student
o Course
o Professor.
• Establish a relationship between the
three entities.
References:
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nn/csc309-
20085/guide/pointbase/docs/html/htmlfiles/dev_datatypesandconversionsFIN.html

https://www.quackit.com/microsoft_access/microsoft_access_2016/tutorial/create_a
_lookup_table_in_microsoft_access.cfm

https://www.visual-
paradigm.com/support/documents/vpuserguide/3563/3564/85378_conceptual,l.html

E-BOOK: Database Concepts

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