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Documentation of Database Development

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Database Development and Its Documentation

Wild Wood Apartments

Major topics for the database

The major topic for the database are as follows:

Wild Wood Departments has the total number of 20 different apartments located in Oregon, Washington and California.

Each apartment complex contains between 10 and 60 apartment and consists of varying sizes.

All apartments are put to lease for a period of one year or six months.

The company business practice is to hire one of the apartment's tenants to manage each of the apartment complexes.

The manager collects rents from tenants and admits new tenants into the building.

The manager also closes the lease if necessary.

The manager's responsibility is also to carry out a repair, renovation, and maintenance of the apartment.

As a manager, he or she gets a stipends and free rent.

Moreover, each manager is expected to the entire report to the company headquarter in California, San Francisco every quarter

The report provides the summary of occupancy rates, maintenance expenses, total revenue from rent and expense for repairs.

Currently, the manager fills out the paper form, and the paper is mailed back to the headquarter.

However, the department manager complains that filing out the form is a complicated and time-consuming process.

The corporate headquarter has shown a concern to easy the efficiency by which the department managers will be able to conduct their daily business.

Thus, the Wild Wood Departments is proposing to develop a centralized database system to improve the efficiency and ease the company daily business to assist the manager to prepare the report of the apartment building.

2. Statement of Work

The objective of this project is to develop a centralized database for the Wild Wood Departments to ease the efficiency the apartment manager will conduct their daily business. The essence of the database is to prepare a report and track daily business of the company.

The project scope will cover the development of a centralized database for the Westwood Department. The preliminary timeline to complete the project will be 30 days, and the major stakeholders for the project are department manager, tenants, and corporate headquarter manager.

3. Documentation

Documentation is the process of providing a document for all the method of the database design that includes its scope, project objective, database structure, problems that the database intends to solve, its business rule, and important decision about its design process. (Conger, 2014).

Statement of Work

The objective of this project is to design database for Wild Wood Departments to ease the efficiency that the company employee employs in creating and accessing data and report.

The Entity and attributes that will be used to record and tracks leases of the apartment complex in the database are as follows:

Apartment Complex

Apt #

Lease Number

Lessee Name

Start Date

End Date

Rent Amount

Deposit

Current

The Entity and attributes that will be used to develop the rent payment form used to track payment in the database are as follows:

Rent Payment

Apartment

Lease Number

Amount Paid

Late

The Entity and attributes for the maintenance request form that will be used to track a request to repair and maintenance as well as apartment manager resolution are as follows:

Repair and Maintenance

Apt

Problem

Type

Resolution

Res Date

BExpense

Texpense

The Entities that will be used to develop the Quarterly Report in the database is as follows:

Quarterly Report

Building#

Address

Quarter

Year

Total Apartments

Percent

No. Changing Tenants

Revenues

Total Rent Revenue

Expenses

Utilities

Maintenance

Repairs

Insurance

New Tenant Cleaning

Wages

Total Expenses

Unrecovered Rents

Total Profit/Loss

Vince's Vinyl

The major topics for the database are as follows:

The database will assist Vinyl to know the level of its inventory

To be able to update the stocks in the inventory

The database should store customer details

To track the suppliers details and amount the company purchase the stock

To track all the sales

To record the company expenses and revenue

To track inventory to provide information to the customer about the availability of a particular stock.

To send an email to the customer to provide them the information about the availability of new items.

To expand the business online in the future.

Statement of Work

The objective of this project is to develop a database for Vinyl. The project will assist the company to track several business aspect in the database. The database will assist the owner to track the sales, record the level of stocks in the inventory, update customer information, and be able to modify and allow purchases. The preliminary timeline for the project is 30 days. The major stakeholders for the project are Vinyl's owner, customer, and suppliers.

Documentation

The objective of the project is to develop a database for Vince's Vinyl. The database will assist the organization track its business aspects that include sales, update customer information, store and modify purchases. The entities and attributes that will be used to develop the database are as follows:

Customer

ID

First Name

Last Name

Address

Telephone

Email Address

Supplier

ID

First Name

Last Name

Address

Telephone

Email Address

Stock

ID Item

Item purchased

Amount purchased each item

Item Available

Total item

Sales

Item ID Purchased

Price

Customer ID

Total sales

Total Expenses

Total Revenue

Expense

Telephone

Electricity

Transport

Housing

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