qQuestionnaire to help on thesis
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------77833074613510 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello World, Thank you for reading this message. I am working on my thesis, and I need help from professionals. Please read the attached text-file for more information ? Thank you, Carl Rijsbrack University of Antwerp ---------------------------------77833074613510 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain Antwerp, November 6, 1995 To whom it may concern, My name is Carl Rijsbrack and I am in my senior year, studying Computer Science at the University of Antwerp Belgium. The major tas= k in my senior year is to write a thesis, which is a very deep analysis of a specified subject. My specification is situated in the= database world, more specificaly : -> installation & installation procedures -> maintenance & troubleshooting -> hardware requirements -> new features To enrich my thesis I would like to receive feedback from professionals who have experience with my domain of research. That's why = I have build a questionnaire. I hope that you will take the time to complete this form and return it to me. All the information stated will be handled with the uppermost care and confidentiallity. Thank you all very much.. Questionnaire ------------- Your coordinates (not necessary, but very helpfull) Name : Sex : Age : ---------- Location : Company : Position : Contact address : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Which database-system are you using. (Oracle, Informix, Sybase, ...) - - 2. On what sort of platfrom is this system running ? (Unix, Windows NT, ...) - - 3. Installation of the product : A. Was this without any problems, smoothly as they say it should be ? - - B. Was there a seperate tool available for doing this installation? - - C. Was everything automatic ? If no, what would yuou like to see automated ? - - - - - D. Is the number of parameters too large ? If so, do you think that this comes in handy ? - - - - E. Was there an extensive and up to date manual to help you out ? - - - 4. Database Creation : A. Do you see this as an easy task in your system ? - - B. Do you make use of the default values given unto you by the included database, concerning tablespaces, redologs, rollback segments, ... ? If no, why not ? - - - - C. Do you think that it is usefull that in this fase of the installation an automatisation would be handy so that the initial created database automatically will be adjusted to the customers needs ? - - - - 5. Hardware Requirements : A. Do you think that the system/hardware requirements are too high? If so, why ? - - - B. Do you think that the requirements given by the product are sufficient for a smooth and fast working of your system ? - - - C. Are these requirements fully documented and stated before you buy the product ? - - - D. Do you think that there is a system check going on while you are installing that is looking into your system and checking if you really have sufficient available memory, disk space ? If no, do you think that this will be handy ? why ? - - - - - - 6. Maintenance & troubleshooting : A. Your opinion ? - - - - - B. Is there enough support for your product ? - - - - C. Is the documentation sufficient ? - - - D. What is your opinion on online documentation instead of books ? - - - - 7. New features : A. Are you always buying the latest releases of the product ? Why ? - - - B. Are you interested in Object Oriented Database Systems ? - - - C. What is your opinion on the use of GUI's concerning databases ? - - - - D. Do you use a graphical environment for creating SQL- querries ? - - - E. What is in your opinion the biggest need in the current database - systems ? Please feel free to let your imagination go... - - - - - - I'ld like to thank you very, very much for this information. It will be used confidentially, and only for my thesis. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Student : Carl Rijsbrack Senior at the University of Antwerp email : rijsbra@hsins.uia.ac.be www: http://www.uia.ac.be/u/rijsbra/ Promotor : Prof. Dr. J Paradaens Dept. of Math & Computer Science University of Antwerp email : pareda@uia.ua.ac.be -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------77833074613510--