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Database Exercise and Homework

The document describes two exercises for students to practice building databases. The first asks students to analyze hotel reservation transaction data to help a small hotel improve its business strategies. The second asks students to design an inventory database for a bike shop to manage information about suppliers and products. Students are instructed to generate specific reports from the databases to analyze areas like room occupancy, revenue, product costs, and reorder levels. They are also asked to identify ways the databases could be enhanced to provide better strategic information for management.

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Database Exercise and Homework

The document describes two exercises for students to practice building databases. The first asks students to analyze hotel reservation transaction data to help a small hotel improve its business strategies. The second asks students to design an inventory database for a bike shop to manage information about suppliers and products. Students are instructed to generate specific reports from the databases to analyze areas like room occupancy, revenue, product costs, and reorder levels. They are also asked to identify ways the databases could be enhanced to provide better strategic information for management.

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IMPROVINGDECISIONMAKING:USINGADATABASETOCLARIFYBUSINESSSTRATEGY(at theendofchapter2,page72) Inthisexercise,youwillusedatabasessoftwaretoanalyzethereservationtransactionfora hotel and use that information to finetune the hotels business strategy and marketing activities. ThePresidentsInnisasmallthreestoryhotelontheAtlanticOceaninCapeMay,NewJersey, a popular northeastern U.S. resort. Ten rooms overlook side streets, 10 rooms have bay windowsthatofferlimitedviewsoftheocean,andtheremaining10roomsinthefrontofthe hotel face the ocean. Room rates are based on room choice, length of stay, and number of guestsperroom.Roomratesarethesameforonetofourguests.Fifthandsixthguestsmust payanadditional$20chargeeachperpersonperday.Guestsstayingforsevendaysormore receivea10percentdiscountontheirdailyroomrates. Businesshasgrownsteadilyduringthepast10years.Nowtotallyrenovated,theinnusesa romanticweekendpackagetoattractcouples,avacationpackagetoattractyoungfamilies, and a weekday discount package to attract business travelers. The owners currently use a manualreservationandbookkeepingsystem,whichhascausedmanyproblems.Sometimes two families have been booked in the same room at the same time. Management does not haveimmediatedataaboutthehotelsdailyoperationsandincome. YouwillfindadatabaseforhotelreservationtransactiondevelopedinMicrosoftAccesson our course webpage (adopted from MyMISLab). Develop some reports that provide informationtohelpmanagementmakethebusinessmorecompetitiveandprofitable.Your reportsshouldanswerthefollowingquestion: Whatistheaveragelengthofstayperroomtype? Whatistheaveragenumberofvisitorsperroomtype? Whatisthebaseincomeperroom(i.e.lengthofvisitmultipliedbythedailyrate)during aspecifiedperiodoftime? Whatisthestrongestcustomerbase? After answering these questions, write a brief report describing what the database informationrevealsaboutthecurrentbusinesssituation.Whichspecificbusinessstrategies might be pursued to increase room occupancy and revenue? How could the database be improvedtoprovidebetterinformationforstrategicdecisions?

Homework assignment
ACHIEVING OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE: BUILDING A RELATIONAL DATABASE FOR INVENTORYMANAGEMENT(attheendofchapter5,page182) Inthisexercise,youwillusedatabasesoftwaretodesignadatabaseformanaginginventory for a small business. Sylvesters Bike Shop, located in San Francisco, California, sells road, mountain,hybrid,leisure,andchildrensbicycles.Currently,Sylvesterspurchasesbikesfrom three supplies, but plans to add new suppliers in the near future. This rapidly growing businessneedsadatabasesystemtomanagethisinformation.

Initially,thedatabaseshouldhouseinformationaboutsuppliersandproducts.Thedatabase willcontaintwotables:asuppliertableandaproducttable.Thereorderlevelreferstothe number of items in inventory that triggers a decision to order more items to prevent a stockout.(Inotherwords,ifthenumberofunitsofaparticularitemininventoryfallsbelow thereorderlevel,theitemshouldbereordered.)Theusershouldbeabletoperformseveral queries and produce several managerial reports based on the data contained in the two tables. Usingtheinformationfoundinthetablesonthecoursewebpage,buildasimplerelational databaseforSylvesters.Onceyouhavebuiltthedatabase,performthefollowingactivities. Prepareareportthatidentifiesthefivemostexpensivebicycles.Thereportshouldlist thebicyclesindescendingorderfrommostexpensivetoleastexpensive,thequantityon handforeach,andthemarkuppercentageforeach. Prepare a report that lists each supplier, its products, the quantities on hand, and associatedreorderlevels.Thereportshouldbesortedalphabeticallybysupplier.Within eachsuppliercategory,theproductsshouldbesortedalphabetically. Prepareareportlistingonlythebicyclesthatarelowinstockandneedtobereordered. Thereportshouldprovidesupplierinformationfortheitemsidentified. Write a brief description of how the database could be enhanced to further improve management of the business. What tables or fields should be added? What additional reportswouldbeuseful?

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