Sunday, March 28, 2010

Post 6

The domain name is very important for my entrepreneurial endeavor because it is a website. SUcarpool.com is avaliable, which is fortunate. A domain name is really an alias for an IP address. I would only have one IP address tied to this domain name because I would only have one server (unless my website really grew which would be awesome!). Of course, I would use an unrestricted domain name, preferably with the suffix ".com". ICANN.com is a great resource for finding out more information about domain names.
My website's database would be one of the most important components of the entire business. Keeping each customer's information on file is important to see our client demographics, such as age, location, etc. This can help with advertising for the site since we'll know our customers and our potential target and where to reach them.
The goal of our datebase would be to record this data efficiently and to manage the vast amounts of information we collect. The most important component of databases is the integrity of the data. It must be consisent. Therefore, a RDBMS (relational database management system) would be great to allow us to design a logical system for the database. RDBMS uses SQL (Structured Query Language). The relationships between entities are responsible for keeping the data consistent. The primary key and foreign key makes sure that when one piece of data is deleted, all other corresponding data in other entities are deleted as well. This ensures that there isn't any phantom data floating around.

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