Explain:
why company and organisation are using "web database"?
what are the pros and cons regarding the usage of web database?
the steps required to design, develop and implement a web database application
i would appreciate if u could give as much information as possible. thank you

a web database can be one of many things, but from what i gather that it is a company or org... many orgs have intra and extranets that are connected to global, remote databases that are accessed through web portals. the traditional desktop client or application is dying a slow death, a lot of applications have become web enabled, through jsp, asp and so on. Many companies might not actually have their databases in house, they might be in data centers far away, in another city... in another country. you see the picture? the other common kind of web database is a backend to a website, where visitors or members information is stored, or for ecommerce sites to have their product, sales, items and customer infomation stored.

Hi,

Database Design

This activity in creating a database application lays the groundwork for success in supporting current and future needs of the application. To design a database requires two steps. The two steps of designing a database are

1. Creating an entity-relationship diagram
2. Translating an entity-relationship diagram into a logical data model

Creating an entity-relationship diagram and translating it into a logical data model is an involved process. The steps to execute this process, however, are important to ensure correct design of the tables that will support both the user interface and the reports. So, even though the users will interface with the database in a controlled manner via the application, it is still important for the success of the application to have a strong database design.


Application Development

Once the users’ needs are assessed and the database design in place, the building of the application logic can begin. Some components of the application that may be placed within the database include integrity constraints and triggers, stored procedures and/or packages, and tuned SQL statements. Application development is often a task that involves stepwise refinement. As needs arise, or as hidden intricacies of a current process are uncovered, the application software that models business rules will undoubtedly grow complex.


Performance Tuning

No application is harder to use than a slow one. The application developers should, wherever possible, explore alternative methods for providing the same data to the user interface or reports in order to find the method that performs best. This step may involve development of alternative blocks of code that pull the same data from the database and executing benchmark tests to compare performance. This step may also involve the maintenance of two different databases, or at the very least, the ability to stop and restart a database with initialization parameters set to handle different periods of operation, such as daily production and weekend maintenance.


Database Security

The guarded usage of the database application created will ensure that its use is appropriate. Database security is an important factor in any database, allowing the developers and managers for the database system to handle large user populations, if necessary, and to limit database access to those users that require it. One key activity that should occur early on in the development of an application is the determining of levels of data access that will be afforded to each user or type of user in the system. At this early stage of the project, users should be divided into rough categories for the purpose of determining what data they need access to in order to perform their tasks. Furthermore, once general access and usage levels for various users are established, there are features within the database that allow the developer or the DBA to limit users to only their access level or to restrict their usage of the database to only what they need. Some key terms to know here are privileges and roles for managing user access, and resource profiles to manage system hardware usage.