Blog Post 2
APA: Database Administration. (2002). In L. C. Hillstrom & K. Hillstrom (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Small Business (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 296-300). Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com.remote.baruch.cuny.edu/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3404300160&v=2.1&u=cuny_baruch&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w&asid=0ad283adb6d622b20b05eab33cacfe25
Research Question:
This article is about the understanding of data administration and how the small business selecting the data management system and what should the small business considered or aware before or after selecting data system.
Methodology:
Seriously I couldn’t find any methodology in this article. Most of them is based on the author ‘s thought and explanation. Probably one of the methodology that might fit in this article is that historical tracing. When the author says that, “In the past, the database record might have included text information about the employee—birth date, address, starting date…company’s location” (pg297).
The extent to which this article takes a social informatics approach to the research study:
The small business is considered as an organization aspect of social informatics in this research study. Some the content is discussed how does small business choosing the right data management system and what would be the consideration when selecting the right system.
In the technology aspect of social informatics, author also mentioned that small business could choose the form or way of how the data can store and use by their user. Author says that, “if the data is vast and is stored on a remote mainframe, end-users throughout the company can all access the data from their desktop using computer networking technology” (pg296), it means that the users can use the data whenever they want as long as their system is connect with the networking technology.
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