Scenario
A small surgery center needs your help to create a database. The office manager has identified the following types of data
(entities): patients, doctors, procedures and appointments using the following business rules:
Patients can have many doctors and many doctors can see many patients.
Patients can have many procedures and many procedures are done on patients.
Doctors can have multiple appointments. (Hint: these are many to many relationships, so associative tables need to be
added).
Requirements
- Please identify the attributes and primary keys needed for each of the entities.
- Identify the data types you would use for each of the attributes.
- Determine the relationships between the entities and find the one-to-many and many-to-many relationships.
- Create an ER diagram using Visio include the associative tables based on your analysis.
- Identify all foreign keys needed in the database design.
- Create the database and relationships in Access and populate the tables using the spreadsheets (unless your
Professor wants you to type the data into the tables). - Write a 3-5-page APA paper discussing the following topics:
a. Discuss Database impact on the workplace,
b. Discuss database benefits when businesses use querie,
c. Forms and reports.
d. Discuss at least two security concerns should be discussed with a proposed solution to mitigate the security
issues.