The database will enable college administrators the ability to track students initial major. This will help college officials decide how best to prepare students for their goals and to follow students into their careers. If there are majors where graduation rates are low it can help administrators decide how to better serve students, make changes to the curriculum or change standards of acceptance into the program.

Diagram Tool:
ER Assistant
Database:
Oracle 10g, using Nova.
Hardware and Software:
UMUC server system (Nova). Operating system is UNIX.

DDL and DML:

SQL (Structured Query Language) will be used for the DDL and DML. For my DDL scripts, I will use SQL to translate the information captured in my ER diagram (created in ER Assistant) into database table creation scripts. For my DML scripts, I will use SQL to insert rows of data into my database tables.