Australia please: Student Survey; Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS)

Hello, Thanks for your bandwidth, I am a student at Gilles Plains College of TAFE South Australia, currently about to complete my Associate Diploma of Business Administration. If you wish to -check the truthful/validate the nature- of my claims in this E-mail, my student ID Number is: 0188136. I am currently involved in a project related to my studies about Relational Database Management Systems. Access, Foxpro, Oracle, Ingres, DBase for example. All of you great people with lots - or even just a little - of experience with RDBMS's, can help me! All I ask is for you to fill in the _brief_ survey below, to help me with my Primary Research. -Your Privacy- 1. None of the questions below will ask specifics of personal details, such as your name or an employer's name or name of business or addresses etc., (only a program). 2. All results of this survey will self destruct under my guidance once my report has been produced. 3. No information gathered from this survey will be sold to peddlers of other people's privacy. It is used for my personal use only. 4. This is my guarantee and this guarantee is final. Please, feel free to distribute this survey to others you know of, who may be interested in filling it out. The more the better! If you undertake to use five minutes of your time to fill out *THE SURVEY BELOW*, I would like to thank you heartily for making a long researching task a little easier, and I salute you! Please send results in an E-mail or as an attatched text file, or simply as a reply, to: navare@mailhost.world.net Thank you. Here it is!!! -----------------cut here :)------------------------------- ########################################################### # RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - SURVEY START # ########################################################### 1. Is your RDBMS directed towards: a. Corporate network servers, b. Desktop use by experienced programmers, c. Desktop use by relatively inexperienced end-users? Answer: _ (Choose appropriate letter). 2. What is the name of the Relational Database Management System which is the subject of this survey (including version #)? Answer: ____________________________________________. 3. Is the package used for: a. Private use, b. Business, c. Association, or d. Club? Answer: _____ (Choose appropriate letter). 4. Name the type of business using this package, (ie service or production, butcher, bank etc). Answer:_____________________________________________. 5. Your role in relation to the package? a. Data Entry, b. Administrator/Manager, c. Owner (All-in-one), d. Database programmer, e. Other; please specify____________________. Answer: (a to e) ___. 6. Is the package running on a network with multiuser access? Answer: ____(Yes or No). 7. If answer to Question 6 was Yes, then approximately how many people are inputing/accessing data from this database package? Answer: _________ people. 8. Would you consider your organisation: a. Small, b. Medium,or c. Large? Answer: ___ (a,b or c). 9. What type of environment does this RDBMS package allow programmers changes, data manipulation/entry, to be made? a. Unix, b. DOS, c. Windows, d. Mac System, e. Other OS or GUI, please state _____________________________. Answer: _______________________ (one or *more* of any letters). 10. From the point of view of an untrained initiate, describe the ease with which the program can be learned to the stage of application development. "I would describe the learning curve of this program to be;" a. Very Steep (very hard). b. Steep (requires dedicated study). c. A steady incline (not difficult). d. Gradual (easy). Answer: ___. 11. What features do *you* consider to be the best, or most powerful, or easiest, or varied etc, in this program. (ie file security, networkability, user friendliness (GUI, Object Oriented), program support - SQL C++ VB Cobol, query capability, front end tools etc, etc,) Any of these will do or a few of them in order of prefference. Answer: ___________________________________________________________. 12. If you have a good idea of the next answer, what features/strengths is this package known to be renowned for? (Similar official goodies as above) Answer: ___________________________________________________________. ################################################################ # RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - SURVEY Finish # ################################################################