Garden Glory is a partnership that provides gardening and yard maintenance services to individuals and organizations. Garden

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Garden Glory is a partnership that provides gardening and yard maintenance services to individuals and organizations. Garden Glory is owned by two partners. They employ two office administrators and a number of full- and part-time gardeners. Garden Glory will provide one-time garden services, but it specializes in ongoing service and maintenance. Many of its customers have multiple buildings, apartments, and rental houses that require gardening and lawn maintenance services.


A. Create a sample list of owners and properties. Your list will be similar in structure to that in Figure 1-30, but it will concern owners and properties rather than owners and pets. Your list should include, at the minimum, owner name, phone, and billing address, as well as property name, type, and address.

B. Describe modification problems that are likely to occur if Garden Glory attempts to maintain the list in a spreadsheet.

C. Split the list into tables such that each has only one theme. Create appropriate ID columns. Use a linking column to represent the relationship between a property and an owner. Demonstrate that the modification problems you identified in part B have been eliminated.

D. Create a sample list of owners, properties, and services. Your list will be similar to that in Figure 1-31. Your list should include the data items from part A as well as the date, description, and amount charged for each service.

E. Illustrate modification problems that are likely to occur if Garden Glory attempts to maintain the list from part D in a spreadsheet.

F. Split the list from part D into tables such that each has only one theme. Create appropriate ID columns. Use linking columns to represent relationships. Demonstrate that the modification problems you identified in part E have been eliminated.

Partnership
A legal form of business operation between two or more individuals who share management and profits. A Written agreement between two or more individuals who join as partners to form and carry on a for-profit business. Among other things, it states...
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Database Concepts

ISBN: 978-0133544626

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Authors: David M. Kroenke, David J. Auer

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