Designing a Car Mechanic's Database
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DESIGN When you look at the qualities required of the filing system, it seems that a computer program would be the best choice. For example, data capture sheets would take time to make by hand, whereas on a computer, it would take hardly any time at all. Also, it would be extremely hard to keep everything in order if a manual system was used. If a computer were used, it would be very hard to mix things up without being able to fix it easily. Finally, a manual system would be hard to change once it was some information was entered. Say someone's address or name changed, it would be much easier to change the records if they were stored on a computer. The following data flow diagram shows the garages current manual filing system: So what will I try to do? Well, there are many types of things I could include, but...

