DN3-1 - Database change

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Author and Citation Info: 

DiBiase, D., DeMers, M., Johnson, A., Kemp, K., Luck, A. T., Plewe, B., and Wentz, E. (2006). Database change. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers. (2nd Quarter 2016, first digital).

Learning Objectives: 
  • Demonstrate the importance of a clean, relatively error-free database (together with an appropriate geodetic framework) with the use of GIS software
  • Exemplify scenarios in which one would need to perform a number of periodic changes in a real GIS database
  • Explain how one would establish the criteria for monitoring the periodic changes in a real GIS database
  • Discuss the implication of “long transactions” on database integrity
  • Modify spatial and attribute data while ensuring consistency within the database