DATA STORES AND CREATING

THE DATA DICTIONARY

JOANNE A. BILLONES

DATA STORES
A data store is a repository for persistently storing
collections of data, such as a database, a file system
or a directory.
Stored data can be of any type that can be rendered
indigitalformat and placed in electronic media.

Digital files (text, image, video, audio, etc.)

File systems
Databases
Directory services
Email storage systems

Data flow elements are grouped together to form a structural

record. A data store is created for each unique structural record.

D1

D2

D3

The data
DATA STORE 1.FORM

store
ID
2. The data store
3. An alias forname
the
4. A short description of the table
data
5. The filestore
type

6. The file format

7. Maximum and average number of
records on the file as well as the
growth
per that
year
8. The file or data
set name
specifies the file name, if known
9. The data structure should use a
name found in the data dictionary.
Comments are used for information that
does not fit into any of the above
categories.

INFORMATION
INCLUDED ON THE

CREATING THE DATA

DICTIONARY
A data dictionary (also called system catalog) is a collection
of descriptions of the data objects or items in a data model
for the benefit of users who need to refer to them.
It is where the systems analyst goes to define or look up
information about entities, attributes and relationships on the
ERD (Entity Relationship Design).

CREATING THE DATA

DICTIONARY
*Create
Diagram
data flow

DATA FLOW
DIAGRAM

*Expand data flow

diagrams to create
child diagrams which
are
more
detailed
(every
process
exploded).

*Data
flow
diagram
and
corresponding
data
dictionary
The
use
of
entries
algebraic
notation
and
structural records
allows the analyst
to develop the
data
dictionary
and the data flow
diagrams using a
top-down
approach.

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