Grade: N/A

Relational Database Design (60 Points)

You are tasked to develop a database design for a retail company that involves shipping orders to customers.  Order data includes an order date, a ship date, and one or more items on each order should be identified by a unique ID. The quantities of each item in the order, the order amount (total per item and per order), and the customer to whom the order is shipped should be added.  Customer data includes a unique customer ID, customer name, and address.  Items in the inventory have a unique item ID, description, and unit cost.

Identify and describe each entity for this application and the attributes of each entity.

Develop relationship sentence pairs for each pair of related entities.

Develop a Visio ERD using crow’s feet notation based on your relationship sentence pairs.

Submit the following screen snapshots, in this order and appropriately labeled, in a single Word file:

1. Your entity descriptions and the attributes for each entity
2. Your relationship sentence pairs
3. Your Visio ERD (take a screen snapshot from Visio and paste into your Word file)

At the top of your Word file include the title of this Critical Thinking assignment, your name, and the date.  The recommended readings this week include videos, tutorials and diagram components for creating a Visio ERD which will help you to complete this weeks Critical Thinking assignment. Visio is recommended to create the ERD but if you have problems obtaining this software then there are several free drawing utilities that can be used for the ERD instead.

Diagramming software – You may use Microsoft Visio or a free Open Source option called Lucidchart, available at https://www.lucidchart.com/. A free single user option is available if you sign up on the website. Be sure to read the terms of service for full details. SmartDraw also has a free download available at https://www.smartdraw.com/resources/tutorials/entity-relationship-diagrams/

Screen snapshots can be made by hitting the PrtScrn button on the keyboard and then pasting the captured image into Word.  You can use Alt-PrtScrn to capture a single window of interest vs. the entire display on the monitor.