This week, you have read about entrepreneurship in a global economy. For your written assignment this week, complete a case study of the organization you work for (use a hypothetical or “other” organization if more applicable) that will address the following prompts:

• Describe the organization’s environment, and evaluate its preparedness to go global, if not already, and it’s strategy for staying global if it is.
• Research other company’s strategy for going global and explain if this will or will not work for your company. 
• Make a recommendation for a global strategy in the organization, including a justification for your recommendations.

Submit your midterm research paper as a single document. Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately four to six pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
• Follow APA 7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.
• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing

Question: Discuss the Privacy issues related to the use of Biometric devices.

Fully address the question(s) in this discussion; provide a valid rationale or a citation for your choices.

The initial post should be at least 350 words in length. 

– References

– No plagirsam 

– APA7 Format

In the SLP assignments in the previous modules, you accomplished the following:

• Determined the scope of the project and the kinds of data you planned to collect based on information requirement (Module 1 SLP)
• Drew an ER diagram to represent relationship among the tables (Module 2 SLP)
• Conducted normalization to the tables so all tables satisfied the 3rd normal form, and created tables using Oracle SQL (Module 3 SLP)

In this module, you are to finish the project by applying what you have learned to generate queries (ask questions) of the database.

Database Queries and Reports

For the same bookstore database, write SQL statements to provide the following information for the output specified in the SLP:

• Employee information (e.g., employee name, address, phone number, hiring date, salary, etc.)
• Information about the books and CDs in the bookstore (e.g., title, author, price, etc.)
• Sales of CDs and books, searchable by date
• Current inventory status of books and CDs
• Any other output you think appropriate

Write a 2- to 5-page paper that includes your SQL statements and screenshots of the results tables in the DBMS (database management system).

SLP Assignment Expectations

• You can work by yourself or with a classmate on this project. If working with a partner, be sure to write both students’ names on the assignment.
• Apply what you have learned to address the questions raised.

Please see below the discussion in response to the original question asked and respond as a peer using 150 or more words.

Original Question:  Explain SQL and its functions. What do you enjoy the most about learning SQL? What you find the most difficult? 

Peer Response:

SQL is a query language and one of the most popular database languages, mostly due to it not being too difficult to learn. Each SQL database systems have data definition language and data manipulation language. The data definition language is for database creation, change and maintenance. The data manipulation language (DML) is used for computing data within a database. The DML can also support functions like COUNT, which counts the number of rows meeting the selection criteria. CURRENT_DATE will return the current system date. AVG computed the total value of the column given. Some very basic and standard commands include, SELECT, INSERT, FROM, CREATE and DROP. 

I enjoyed how simple it was to understand the language. I have taken courses with other languages and this has been the least confusing. Being able to continue to build on what you already have is the best part. The most difficult was understanding the normalization forms. This was a big hurdle for me but once I got more of an understanding it became simpler to understand how I needed to do the diagrams. Also some of the syntaxes. in the trucks assignment it took me hours, and I mean hours, to fully understand where I was going wrong with some of them. But now I’ve become more aware of what to use and where to use it. 

Please see below the discussion in response to the original question asked and respond as a peer using 150 or more words.

Original Question:   As your study in this course draws to a close, it is important to reflect on new levels of understanding, skills, and knowledge that you developed as a result of your efforts throughout this course. It is particularly important to reflect on the course outcomes (what you were intended to learn in this course). 

Peer Response:  

When I enrolled in this course I expected to learn about the different components to a database and how I might need to structure it. We covered the database concepts, design, modeling, normalization, and statements. Each module we were able to build on what we learned. This class taught me that a database is a collection of structured information that is accessed, managed, updated, and controlled with a query language(SQL).

I learned that an Entity Relationship Diagram is to show the relationship of entities stored in a database. There are three concepts to an ER Diagram: entities, attributes, and relationships. This step is before creating your ER model which is a must before implementing your database. We do this to eliminate redundant information and make sure that all needed information is supported. I must admit that this concept seems simple but for me I had a hard breaking everything down to eliminate the repeated information. This is still a slight struggle but with a little more practice I can get it. 

Normalization is a technique used to reduce redundancy and reduce the need for insertion, updates, and deletion. There are 3 forms that we covered in this course. 1NF, 2NF, 3NF and each one will build on top of one another. 1NF should have one value and it needs to be unique. 2NF must be in 1NF and the primary key is not functionally dependent on any other key relations. 3NF must be in 2NF and no transitive functional dependencies. This was the biggest struggle I had in the entire course. I had to find visual examples to really get my understanding around this course material. 

SQL Statements was my favorite part of the whole course. The statements we used were basic and straight forward. Statements had keywords like SELECT, FROM, CREATE TABLE, INSERT INTO. The commands told you exactly what you were doing. I think I enjoyed this section so much because I was able to get the visual satisfaction of my data inputs populating in the tables. I have had experience with SQL before but to only pull information that I was looking for, so to actually write it was fun.

Thank you Dr. Kats, your classes challenge me and your feedback is very helpful. I hope to have you in another course!