STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PROJECT REPORT

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ABSTRACT

                   Our project explains about the student management. This project mainly explains the various actions related to student details. This project shows some ease in adding, editing and deleting the student details. It also provides a less time consuming process for viewing, adding, editing and deleting the marks of the students.

            Our project includes

•         Student Registration

•         Subject Allocation

•         Branch selection

•         Semester wise selection.

•         Examination marks entry

•         Displaying branch and semester wise result.

1. INTRODUCTION - STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Student Management System is software which is helpful for students as well as the school authorities. In the current system all the activities are done manually. It is very time consuming and costly. Our Student Management System deals with the various activities related to the students.

There are mainly 3 modules in this software

• User module
• Student Module
• Mark management Module.

In the Software we can register as a user and user has of two types, student and administrator. Administrator has the power to add new user and can edit and delete a user. A student can register as user and can add edit and delete his profile. The administrator can add edit and delete marks for the student. All the users can see the marks.

2.    SYSTEM ANALYSIS

    2.1 EXISTING SYSTEM: STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

       System Analysis is a detailed study of the various operations performed by a system and their relationships within and outside of the system. Here the key question is- what all problems exist in the present system? What must be done to solve the problem? Analysis begins when a user or manager begins a study of the program using existing system.

       During analysis, data collected on the various files, decision points and transactions handled by the present system. The commonly used tools in the system are Data Flow Diagram, interviews, etc. Training, experience and common sense are required for collection of relevant information needed to develop the system. The success of the system depends largely on how clearly the problem is defined, thoroughly investigated and properly carried out through the choice of solution. A good analysis model should provide not only the mechanisms of problem understanding but also the frame work of the solution. Thus it should be studied thoroughly by collecting data about the system. Then the proposed system should be analyzed thoroughly in accordance with the needs.

System analysis can be categorized into four parts.

ü  System planning and initial investigation

ü  Information Gathering

ü  Applying analysis tools for structured analysis

ü  Feasibility study

ü  Cost/ Benefit analysis.

In the current system we need to keep a number of records related to the student and want to enter the details of the student and the marks manually. In this system only the teacher or the school authority views the mark of the student and they want to enter the details of the student. This is time consuming and has much cost.

2.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM - STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

                   In our proposed system we have the provision for adding the details of the students by themselves. So the overhead of the school authorities and the teachers is become less. Another advantage of the system is that it is very easy to edit the details of the student and delete a student when it found unnecessary. The marks of the student are added in the database and so students can also view the marks whenever they want.

Our proposed system has several advantages

Ø  User friendly interface

Ø  Fast access to database

Ø  Less error

Ø  More Storage Capacity

Ø  Search facility

Ø  Look and Feel Environment

Ø  Quick transaction

                   All the manual difficulties in managing the student details in a school or college have been rectified by implementing computerization.

2.3 FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS - STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 

 Whatever we think need not be feasible .It is wise to think about the feasibility of any problem we undertake. Feasibility is the study of impact, which happens in the organization by the development of a system. The impact can be either positive or negative. When the positives nominate the negatives, then the system is considered feasible. Here the feasibility study can be performed in two ways such as technical feasibility and Economical Feasibility.

Technical Feasibility:

      We can strongly says that it is technically feasible, since there will not be much difficulty in getting required resources for the development and maintaining the system as well. All the resources needed for the development of the software as well as the maintenance of the same is available in the organization here we are utilizing the resources which are available already.

Economical Feasibility

     Development of this application is highly economically feasible .The organization needed not spend much money for the development of the system already available. The only thing is to be done is making an environment for the development with an effective supervision. If we are doing so, we can attain the maximum usability of the corresponding resources .Even after the development, the organization will not be in condition to invest more in the organization .Therefore, the system is economically feasible.

3. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION - STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

3.1                         Hardware Requirements

                                         Processor              :       Pentium III 630MHz

                                         RAM                    :       128 MB

                                         Hard Disk             :       20GB

                                         Monitor                :       15” Color monitor

                                         Key Board            :       104 Keys

3.2                         Software Requirements

                                        Operating System       : Windows NT,

                                                                              Windows 98,

                                                                              Windows XP.

                                        Language                    :  Java 2 Runtime Environment

                                        Database                     :   MS Access2007.

3.3                         Functional Requirements

          The functional requirements of the system are to the implement the solution for finding the train details and route information in the large existing rail system.

1.      Input / Output:

The user select the type of train and enter the source and destination codes with which finds the trains details and route information.

2.      Processing:

             The information regarding train details are retrieved from the database.

3.      Storage Requirements:

            The information will be retrieved from the database.

4.      Control Requirements:

             Alerts when any errors are there and when any of the field is not selected.

4 SYSTEM DESIGN - STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

4.1 Introduction

                          System design is a process through which requirements are translated into a representation of software. Initially the representation depicts a holistic view of software. Subsequent refinement leads to a design representation that is very close to source code. Design is a place where quality fostered in software development. Design provides us with representation of software that can be assessed for quality; this is the only way that can accurately translate the customer requirements into finished software product or system. System design serves as the foundation for all software engineering and software maintenance steps that follow.

We look the design process from three distinct perspectives:

• Conceptual Design

·         Logical Design

• Physical Design

                           The higher view is the conceptual view, followed by the logical view and finally the physical view. In designing an application, we generally begin and end each phase in a sequentially order, although they may overlap one another along the way.

Conceptual Design:

                       Conceptual Design is the process of acquiring and evaluating, documenting and then validating what the user envisions to be the business relation. It identifies the user and business requirements of the application and leads to a business solution as seen by the user.

                       

                      All applications are built to solve business problems, and it is important to pay close attention to principle that the business need drives application development. At any point in the design process, the current state of the design should be directly traceable to a business problem and requirements.

                      To achieve this conceptual design is driven by developing usage scenarios. These scenarios are a direct representation of the user’s view of the solution to a specific business          problem. A conceptual view places the emphasize on solving a business problem and deriving a solution that corresponds to the needs and requirements of the users. It is based on deriving the behavior of the solution with a primary emphasizes on the user. Beginning with a emphasis on the activities of the business rather than aspects of software development, underscores the fact that systems exists to serve the business. A strong focus on the user in the beginning of the project will help in maintaining a proper perspective throughput the development lifecycle.The conceptual design results in the first description of what the system does to solve the business problem articulated in the vision/scope document.

Logical Design

                        Logical Design derives business objects and their related services directly from these usage scenarios. The logical view of the solution provides a basis for evaluating different physical options. It also formalizes the solution for the project team.

                        The idea of the application is that the system first emerges in logical design.Its boundaries and business objects and it contains the system definition. Logical design specifies the interfaces between the system and external entities,such as users and other systems. Within a system there may be a number of sub-systems, and these boundaries are also specified.

Logical System Design consists of the following steps:

·         Input/Output Specifications

·         File Specifications

·         Processing Specifications

         Logical design should be technologically independent as possible, inorder to separate system behavior issues from system implementation issues. Implementation constraints should only be considered only after the project team verifies that the essential behavior has been incorporated onto a logical design. This approach does not establish a technical direction until the system is well understood and documented.

Physical Design

                         The purpose of Physical Design is to translate the logical design into a solution that can be implemented effectively, according to performance, administration and development process requirements. This physical view should correctly implement the desired system behavior while meeting the constraints imposed by the technology.

                           In Physical Design, the perspective shifts from an abstraction of system behavior to an implementation of the behavior. Whereas the logical design is largely technology independent, physical design is necessarily tied to chosen set of technologies, these being the hardware and software on which the application will run.

                           The aim of physical design is to specify how to build portioned applications from software components. The interaction of these components through defined interfaces results in the desired behavior of the system as a whole. The rules for communicating between components are defined by interaction standards: what a component does and how it communicates are major considerations in physical design.

Physical design consists of the following steps:

 1. Design the physical media

·         Specify input/output media.

·         Design the database and specify backup procedures.

·         Design physical information flow through the system.

2. Plan the system implementation

·         Prepare a conversion schedule target date.

·         Determine training procedure, courses and timetable.

3. Device a test and implementation plan.

4. Specify any new Hardware/Software usage.

5. Update benefits, costs, conversion date and system constraints.

4.2 UML Diagrams - STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

      Introduction

                      Design is the first step in the development phase for an engineered product or system. Design is the place where quality is fostered in software development. Design is the only way that we can accurately translate a user’s requirements into a finished software product or system. Software design serves as the foundation for all software engineers and software maintenance steps that follow. Without design we risk building an unstable design -one that will fail when small changes are made, one that may be difficult to test, and one whose quantity cannot be accessed until late in the software engineering process.

            Taking software requirements specification document of analysis phase as input to the design phase we have drawn Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams. UML depends on the visual modeling of the system. Visual modeling is the process of taking the information from the model and displaying it graphically using some sort of standards set of graphical elements.

            UML Diagrams are drawn using the Pace Star UML Diagrammed Software. We seem to able to understand complexity better when it is displayed to us visually as opposed to written textually. By producing visual models of a system, we can show how system works on several levels. We can model and the interactions between the users and the system.

  

Types of UML Diagrams

Each UML diagram is designed to let developers and customers view a software system from a different perspective and in varying degrees of abstraction. UML diagrams commonly created in visual modeling tools include

Use Case Diagram displays the relationship among actors and use cases.

4.3 DATABASE DESIGN - STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

            The general theme behind a database is to handle information as an integrated whole. A database is a collection of interrelated data stored with minimum redundancy to serve many users quickly and efficiently. The general objective is to make information access easy quick and flexible for user. In database design several objectives are considered.

Control Redundancy:

       Redundant occupies space and therefore, is wasteful. If versions of the data are in different phases of updating the system often gives conflicting information. A unique aspect of database design is storing only once, which controls redundancy and improves system performance.

E-R DIAGRAMS: STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

    Entity-Relationship Model:

           The Entity-Relationship data model is based on a perception of a real world, which is consists of set of basic object called entities and relationships among these objects. An entity is an object that exists and is distinguishable from other objects/entity is an object as a concept meaningful to the organization. An entity set is a set of entities of the same type. A primary key is an attribute which when take, allows us to identify uniquely an entity in the entity set. 

4.3.1 DATA FLOW DIAGRAM - STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

A data-flow diagram (DFD) is a graphical representation of the "flow" of data through an information system. DFDs can also be used for the visualization of data processing (structured design).

On a DFD, data items flow from an external data source or an internal data store to an internal data store or an external data sink, via an internal process.

A DFD provides no information about the timing or ordering of processes, or about whether processes will operate in sequence or in parallel. It is therefore quite different from a flowchart, which shows the flow of control through an algorithm, allowing a reader to determine what operations will be performed, in what order, and under what circumstances, but not what kinds of data will be input to and output from the system, nor where the data will come from and go to, nor where the data will be stored (all of which are shown on a DFD).

4.3.2 TABLES STRUCTURES - STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 

Student Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
RollNo	Number	Primary Key
SName	Text(50)
Phno	Text(15)
Sex	Text(10)
FName	Text(50)
Occupation	Text(50)
MName	Text(50)
DOB	Date/Time
Age	Number
Caste	Text(25)
Religion	Text(30)
Hname	Text(50)
City	Text(50)
District	Text(50)
State	Text(50)
Pin	Text(10)
Year	Number
Qualification	Text(25)

UAD Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
Username	Text(25)	Primary Key
Password	Text(15)
Type	Text(15)

Subjects Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
Subjectcode	Text(10)	Primary Key
Subjectname	Text(50)
Creditmark	Number
MaxMark	Number
Type	Text(25)

SubjectAllocation Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
Subjectname	Text(50)
Semester	Number	Primary key
Batch	Text(15)

SSLC1 Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
RollNo	Number	Foreign Key
SubjectName	Text(50)
Subjectcode	Text(15)	Foreign key
Internal	Number
Theory	Number
Practical	Number
Total	Number

SSLC2 Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
RollNo	Number	Foreign Key
SubjectName	Text(50)
Subjectcode	Text(15)	Foreign Key
Internal	Number
Theory	Number
Practical	Number
Total	Number

SSLC3 Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
RollNo	Number	Foreign Key
SubjectName	Text(50)
Subjectcode	Text(15)	Foreign Key
Internal	Number
Theory	Number
Practical	Number
Total	Number

SSLC4 Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
RollNo	Number	Foreign Key
SubjectName	Text(50)
Subjectcode	Text(15)	Foreign Key
Internal	Number
Theory	Number
Practical	Number
Total	Number

SSLC5 Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
RollNo	Number	Foreign Key
SubjectName	Text(50)
Subjectcode	Text(15)	Foreign Key
Internal	Number
Theory	Number
Practical	Number
Total	Number

SSLC6 Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
RollNo	Number	Foreign Key
SubjectName	Text(50)
Subjectcode	Text(15)	Foreign Key
Internal	Number
Theory	Number
Practical	Number
Total	Number

PLUSTWO1 Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
RollNo	Number	Foreign key
SubjectName	Text(50)
Subjectcode	Text(15)	Foreign Key
Internal	Number
Theory	Number
Practical	Number
Total	Number

PLUSTWO2 Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
RollNo	Number	Foreign key
SubjectName	Text(50)
Subjectcode	Text(15)	Foreign Key
Internal	Number
Theory	Number
Practical	Number
Total	Number

PLUSTWO3 Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
RollNo	Number	Foreign key
SubjectName	Text(50)
Subjectcode	Text(15)	Foreign Key
Internal	Number
Theory	Number
Practical	Number
Total	Number

PLUSTWO4 Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
RollNo	Number	Foreign key
SubjectName	Text(50)
Subjectcode	Text(15)	Foreign Key
Internal	Number
Theory	Number
Practical	Number
Total	Number

PLUSTWO5 Table

Field Name	Data Type	Constraint
RollNo	Number	Foreign key
SubjectName	Text(50)
Subjectcode	Text(15)	Foreign Key
Internal	Number
Theory	Number
Practical	Number
Total	Number

5 SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION - STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

5.1 Introduction

Implementation is the stage in the project where the theoretical design is turned into a working system. The implementation phase constructs, installs and operates the new system. The most crucial stage in achieving a new successful system is that it will work efficiently and effectively.

There are several activities involved while implementing a new project. They are

Ø  End user training

Ø  End user Education

Ø  Training on the application software

Ø  System Design

Ø  Parallel Run and To New System

Ø  Post implementation Review

End user Training:

The successful implementation of the new system will purely upon the involvement of the officers working in that department. The officers will be imparted the necessary training on the new technology

End User Education:

The education of the end user start after the implementation and testing is over. When the system is found to be more difficult to understand and complex, more effort is put to educate the end used to make them aware of the system, giving them lectures about the new system and providing them necessary documents and materials about how the system can do this.

Training of application software:

After providing the necessary basic training on the computer awareness, the users will have to be trained upon the new system such as the screen flows and screen design type of help on the screen, type of errors while entering the data, the corresponding validation check at each entry and the way to correct the data entered. It should then cover information needed by the specific user or group to use the system.

Post Implementation View:

The department is planning a method to know the states of t he past implementation process. For that regular meeting will be arranged by the concerned officers about the implementation problem and success.

5.2 Project Modules - STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

        Our application deals with three modules

•         User module

•         Student Module

•         Mark management Module.

    User Module:

Ø  In the Software we can register as a user and user has of two types, student and administrator.

Ø  Administrator has the power to add new user and can edit and delete a user. A student can register as user and can add edit and delete his profile.

Ø  The administrator can add, edit and delete marks for the student. All the users can see the marks.

Student Module:

Ø    In this student module Administrator will register the details of the student.

Ø   Administrator  can  view the details of the student by giving admission number.

Ø   Administrator  can also edit the details of the student by giving admission number

Ø  Administrator  can also delete the details of the student by giving admission number

Marks Management Module

Ø  In this module Administrator  register  all subjects and also provide subject code to each and every subject.

Ø  Assign subjects to every branch in semester wise.

Ø  Using subject code  Administrator  edit and delete the  subjects.

Ø  Administrator enters marks of the Student in semester wise.

Ø  Administrator can also edit  and delete the marks of the student. 

6. SYSTEM TESTING - STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

6.1 Introduction

     Is the menu bar displayed in the appropriate contested some system related features included either in menus or tools? Do pull –Down menu operation and Tool-bars work properly? Are all menu function and pull down sub function properly listed ?; Is it possible to invoke each menu function using a logical assumptions that if all parts of the system are correct, the goal will be successfully achieved .? In adequate testing or non-testing will leads to errors that may appear few months later.

This create two problem

 1. Time delay between the cause and appearance of the problem.

2. The effect of the system errors on files and records within the system

 The purpose of the system testing is to consider all the likely variations to which it will be suggested and push the systems to limits.

           The testing process focuses on the logical intervals of the software ensuring that all statements have been tested and on functional interval is conducting tests to uncover errors and ensure that defined input will produce actual results that agree with the required results. Program level testing, modules level testing integrated and carried out.

6.2 Testing Methods

           There are two major type of testing they are

1)      White Box Testing.

2)      Black Box Testing.

White Box Testing

White box sometimes called “Glass box testing” is a test case design uses the control structure of the procedural design to drive test case.

Using white box testing methods, the following tests were made on the system

a) All independent paths within a module have been exercised once. In our system, ensuring that case was selected and executed checked all case structures. The bugs that were prevailing in some part of the code where fixed

b) All logical decisions were checked for the truth and falsity of the values.

Black box Testing

Black box testing focuses on the functional requirements of the software. This is black box testing enables the software engineering to derive a set of input conditions that will fully exercise all functional requirements for a program. Black box testing is not an alternative to white box testing rather it is complementary approach that is likely to uncover a different class of errors that white box methods like..

1) Interface errors

2) Performance in data structure

3) Performance errors

4) Initializing and termination errors

Unit testing

Unit testing is a software verification and validation method in which a programmer tests if individual units of source code are fit for use.

 A unit is the smallest testable part of an application. In procedural programming a unit may be an individual function or procedure.

Ideally, each test case is independent from the others: substitutes like method stubs, objects, fakes and test harnesses can be used to assist testing a module in isolation.

Integration Testing:

This testing is sometimes called Integration and Testing. Integration testing is the phase in software testing in which individual software modules are combined and tested as a group. It occurs after unit testing and before system testing. Integration testing takes  as its input modules that have been unit tested, groups them in larger aggregates, applies tests defined in an integration test plan to those aggregates and delivers as its output the integrated system ready for system testing.

Validation Testing:

    Validation Testing can be defined in many ways, but a simple definition is that validation succeeds when the software functions in a manner that can reasonably expected by a customer.        After validation test has been conducted, one of the following two possible conditions exists. The functions or performance characteristics confirm to specification and are accepted.

•          In the administrator and marks modules, all the fields must be filled.

•          In the student registration, mobile number should contain exactly 10 numbers.

User Acceptance Testing:

                  User acceptance of a system is a key factor of any system. The system under consideration is tested for the acceptance by constantly keeping in touch with the prospective system users at the same time of developing and marketing changes whenever required. This is done in regard to the following points:

•          Input Screen Design

•          Output Screen Design

  

6.3 Test Cases

NO	INPUT GIVEN	EXPECTED OUTPUT	ACTUAL OUTPUT OCCURED	TEST PASS	ACTION TAKEN
1	Admin , pass	Admin Home page	Admin Home page	Yes	-
2	bindu , bindu	student Home page	student Home page	Yes	-
3	Admin, kumar	Admin Home page	Invalid password for user Admin	No	The wrong password kumar is given for user Admin.
4	phoneNumber	Student registration successful.	Please enter a valid phone number.	No	The phone number given is of 9 numbers.
5	Adding of subject into the specified branch according to semester wise	Subject Allocated Sucessfully	Alredy Subject is allocated	No	The subject name given was already exists.

7. CONCLUSION - STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

                 Our project is only a humble venture to satisfy the needs in an Institution. Several user friendly coding have also adopted. This package shall prove to be a powerful package in satisfying all the requirements of the organization.

            The objective of software planning is to provide a frame work that enables the manger to make reasonable estimates made within a limited time frame at the beginning of the software project and should be updated regularly as the project progresses.

9       APPENDIX

9.1           Introduction To Languages

JAVA

The Java programming language is robust and versatile, enabling developers to:

Ø Write software on one platform and run in on another

Ø Create programs to run with a web browser

Ø Develop server-side applications

An overview of the Java’s architecture

The java platform differs from most other platforms in that it’s a software-only platform that runs on top of other hardware-based platforms.

The java platform has two components:

Ø The java virtual machine (JVM)

Ø The java application programming interface (Java API)

Java technology is a portfolio of products that are based on the power of network sand the idea that the same software should run on many different kinds of systems and devices.

J2EE:

Java platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE is a widely used platform for server programming in the Java Programming language. The Java EE platform differs from the Java Standard Edition Platform(Java SE) in that it adds libraries which functionality to deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, multi-tier Java software, based largely on modular components running on an application server. The J2EE1.4 SDK beta was released by Sun in December 2002.

9.2 Introduction to SQL : STUDENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Database

      A database management, or DBMS, gives the user access to their data and helps them transform the data into information. Such database management systems include dBase, paradox, IMS, SQL Server and SQL Server.  These systems allow users to create, update and extract information from their database.

     A database is a structured collection of data.  Data refers to the characteristics of people, things and events.  SQL Server stores each data item in its own fields.  In SQL Server, the fields relating to a particular person, thing or event are bundled together to form a single complete unit of data, called a record (it can also be referred to as raw or an occurrence).  Each record is made up of a number of fields.  No two fields in a record can have the same field name.

SQL Server Tables

      SQL Server stores records relating to each other in a table.  Different tables are created for the various groups of information. Related tables are grouped together to form a database.

Primary Key

       Every table in SQL Server has a field or a combination of fields that uniquely identifies each record in the table.  The Unique identifier is called the Primary Key, or simply the Key.  The primary key provides the means to distinguish one record from all other in a table.  It allows the user and the database system to identify, locate and refer to one particular record in the database.

Relational Database

       Sometimes all the information of interest to a business operation can be stored in one table.  SQL Server makes it very easy to link the data in multiple tables. Matching an employee to the department in which they work is one example.  This is what makes SQL Server a relational database management system, or RDBMS.  It stores data in two or more tables and enables you to define relationships between the table and enables you to define relationships between the tables.

Foreign Key

      When a field is one table matches the primary key of another field is referred to as a foreign key.  A foreign key is a field or a group of fields in one table whose values match those of the primary key of another table.

Referential Integrity

       Not only does SQL Server allow you to link multiple tables, it also maintains consistency between them.  Ensuring that the data among related tables is correctly matched is referred to as maintaining referential integrity.

Advantages of RDBMS

• Redundancy can be avoided

• Inconsistency can be eliminated
• Data can be Shared
• Standards can be enforced
• Security restrictions ca be applied
• Integrity can be maintained
• Conflicting requirements can be balanced
• Data independence can be achieved.

Disadvantages of DBMS

        A significant disadvantage of the DBMS system is cost.  In addition to the cost of purchasing of developing the software, the hardware has to be upgraded to allow for the extensive programs and the workspace required for their execution and storage.  While centralization reduces duplication, the lack of duplication requires that the database be adequately backed up so that in case of failure the data can be recovered.

Features of SQL Server(RDBMS)

       SQL SERVER is one of the leading database management systems (DBMS) because it is the only Database that meets the uncompromising requirements of today’s most demanding information systems.  From complex decision support systems (DSS) to the most rigorous online transaction processing (OLTP) application, even application that require simultaneous DSS and OLTP access to the same critical data, SQL Server leads the industry in both performance and capability

      SQL SERVER is a truly portable, distributed, and open DBMS that delivers unmatched performance, continuous operation and support for every database.

     SQL SERVER RDBMS is high performance fault tolerant DBMS which is specially designed for online transactions processing and for handling large database application.

    SQL SERVER with transactions processing option offers two features which contribute to very high level of transaction processing throughput, which are:The row level lock manager

1.      Enterprise wide Data Sharing

            The unrivaled portability and connectivity of the SQL SERVER DBMS enables all the systems in the organization to be linked into a singular, integrated computing resource.

2. Portability

            SQL SERVER is fully portable to more than 80 distinct hardware and operating systems platforms, including UNIX, MSDOS, OS/2, Macintosh and dozens of proprietary platforms.  This portability gives complete freedom to choose the database sever platform that meets the system requirements.

3. Open Systems

            SQL SERVER offers a leading implementation of industry –standard SQL.  SQL Server’s open architecture integrates SQL SERVER and non –SQL SERVER DBMS with industries most comprehensive collection of tools, application, and third party software products SQL Server’s Open architecture provides transparent access to data from other relational database and even non-relational database.

1.      Distributed Data Sharing

            SQL Server’s networking and distributed database capabilities to access data stored on remote server with the same ease as if the information was stored on a single local computer.  A single SQL statement can access data at multiple sites. You can store data where system requirements such as performance, security or availability dictate.

5. Unmatched Performance

            The most advanced architecture in the industry allows the SQL SERVER DBMS to deliver unmatched performance.

6. Sophisticated Concurrency Control

            Real World applications demand access to critical data.  With most database Systems application becomes “contention bound” – which performance is limited not by the CPU  power or by disk I/O, but user waiting on one another for data access . SQL Server employs full, unrestricted row-level locking and contention free queries to minimize and in many cases entirely eliminates contention wait times.

9.3 Introduction To JDBC

JDBC technology is an API(included in both J2SE and J2EE releases) that provides cross DBMS connectivity to a wide range of SQL database and access to other tabular data sources, such as spreadsheets or flat files. With a JDBC technology-enabled driver, you can connect all corporate data even in a heterogeneous environment.

The JDBC API makes it possible to do three things:

•         Establish a connection  with a database or access any tabular data source

•         Send SQL statements

•         Process the results

Types of JDBC technology drives

JDBC technology drivers fit into one of four categories:

•         A JDBC-ODBC bridge provides JDBC API access via one or more ODBC drivers.

•         A native-API partly Java technology-enabled driver converts JDBC calls into calls on the client API for Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2, or other DBMS.

•         A net-protocol fully Java technology-enabled driver translates JDBC API calls into a DBMS-independent net protocol which is then translated to a DBMS protocol by a server.

•         A native-protocol fully Java technology-enabled driver converts JDBC technology calls into the network protocol used by DBMSs directly.