The Scenario:
You have been hired by a warehousing company with multiple warehouse facilities in a metropolitan area to perform the logical design of a database to manage their roster of available temporary workers and their subsequent assignments to fill workforce needs. The temporary workers are needed on a seasonal basis to fill a number of job roles such as forklift driver, van driver, loading dock worker, inventory clerk, etc. Each warehouse facility is configured with two different work areas in which inventory may be received or shipped: receiving operations and shipping operations. Here are the requirements that you have identified after interviewing company management:
The company intends to use the completed database design to support the identification of temporary workers to fill needed assignments and to produce comprehensive reports on the use of temporary workers.
The Deliverable:
In a Microsoft Word document, provide a complete integrated set of normalized (3NF required) relations, using the format displayed in Figure 9.3e on page 318 (note that entities are in all caps, attribute names with multiple words are connected by an underline character joining each word (for example, “Student_ID”), primary keys are underlined and listed first within the attributes) in Third Normal Form (see pages 321-324 for complete information on the normalization process).
An Example of Normalization:
Here is a relatively simplistic example of a normalization process:
An “un-normalized” relation:
STUDENT(Last_Name, First_Name, Course_Name, Instructor_Name, Semester, Year)
There are multiple problems here: multiple students could have the same last name, course name might occur many times within the table and could be entered incorrectly or misspelled in some records, instructor name might occur many times within the table and could be entered incorrectly or misspelled in some records, semester name might occur many times within the table and could be entered incorrectly or misspelled in some records.
The “normalized” version in Third Normal Form:
STUDENT(Student_ID, Last_Name, First_Name)
INSTRUCTOR(Instructor_ID, Last_Name, First_Name)
COURSE(Course_ID, Course_Name)
SEMESTER(Semester_ID, Term, Year)
COURSES_TAKEN(Student_ID,Course_ID,Instructor_ID,Semester_ID)

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