[DN3-1] Database change

Modification of spatial and attribute data while ensuring consistency within the database, implications of transactions on database integrity, scenarios for periodic changes in GIS database and monitoring the periodic changes.

External resources

• Langran, G. (1992). Time in geographic inormation systems. Technical issues in geographic information systems (1). London, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.

Learning outcomes

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

Self assessment

Outgoing relations

• [DN3-1] Database change subclassof [GD3] Transaction management of geospatial data