Presented By:

Anand Kumar
JU07019
NSB School of Business,
New Delhi
 Case Appraisal
 Name - Wayne county intermediate school

 Director of Data Processing – Mr. Jerry L.Henderson

 Location – Michigan

 Consists of 36 constituent District

 Combined student population is 450000

 Shifted from centralized to Distributed database

 Reduced cost

 28 small computer linked to central headquarter

 235 visual display terminals in local schools and board offices are
linked.
Distributed Data Processing
 Administrative Applications

 Payroll Processing of staff.

 Complete payment history
tracking
 On-line pay calculation
 Workforce planning
 Absence management of
teachers.
 Applications tracking of students.
 Student accounting and auditing
 Educational Functions

Electronic Bulletin display of

Important notices.

Accessing Student Grades.

Articles by student
 COST SAVING

 Communication costs

 Maintenance cost

- Systems can be modified,

added and removed from
the distributed database
without affecting other
modules (systems).

- Hardware cost.

- Cost of data lost.

Disadvantages of Distributed Systems

Complexity — extra work must be done by the DBAs

to ensure that the distributed nature of the system is
transparent. Extra work must also be done to
maintain multiple disparate systems, instead of one
big one.

Economics — increased complexity and a more

extensive infrastructure means extra labour costs.
 Contd….
 Security — remote database fragments must be secured,
and they are not centralized so the remote sites must be
secured as well. The infrastructure must also be secured
(eg: by encrypting the network links between remote
sites).

 Difficult to maintain integrity — in a distributed

database enforcing integrity over a network may require
too much networking resources to be feasible

 Inexperience — distributed databases are difficult to

work with, and as a young field there is not much
readily available experience on proper practice