Sunday, July 20, 2008

Task1.3

In the older days of technology people loved what they did in respect to information technology. Although thinks seems difficult to us nowadays in those days no matter how long or tedious tasks were they were all comfortable with it because it worked for them. As technology moved on they were afraid to move over from manually doing stuff to the digital age.

The reason for this is they felt it would just not work for them, the old school way always works. Once they realize and overcome that barrier between computer based application and how easy life is and tech old school manual way they become fascinated and surprised to what technology can actually do for you and your business.

P

Task1.2

OpenIt
6 Lauradan Avenue
20 July 2008

To : Anne and Elizabeth

From : P M

Subject : Proposal for online store

With regards to the future plans for Haircare studios I am pleased to advise you that the idea of moving to the web is a total must. With a business as such being online we have the potential to reach customers worldwide. Being web based also advertisers the product much more then traditional methods of advertising. Being online will require a provider to host the website and a digital certificate from a third party such as Geotrust to verify client and server activity and that people are who they claim to be so its totally secure. Payments will be transferred directly into your account which makes trading over the web really intuitive and easy. Depending on the clientele we will be able to decipher our bandwidth needs and costs. Look forward to seeing you soon.

Copy to: Pranesh Medilall
Yousef Aljaberi

Task1.1

It was indeed a learning curve for me as I have never used ODBC before. After using it in the first tutorial, I now realise how powerful this tool actually is. It really makes life easy when you require to import data from one DB to another. Was very interesting doing the first exercise. I actually ran into no problems. Followed POD`s notes and all was good. SQL, ODBC, Excel, Access - In access and excel we can store information and run SQL queries against to retrieve data. IN instances where by we need to import data from one data store to another we can used ODBC to allow us to import data and the structure of the DB into a current DB. Theres no need to recreate structure neither do we have to manually copy entries accross. All in all it was a learning experience in the lab this week.