Week 3

Data bases have a strong influence on today's business world. There are many aspects in which businesses whether big or small rely on data bases. One that I would like to focus on is how information is transferred.

I work at a corporation owned restaurant chain called Market Street Grill, or Gastronomy Inc. There each shift I am required to clock in and out each shift and report on the money I made. Many items are automatically calculated when I do this. For example, employee meals, at a mandatory cost of $2.99 a shift, are automatically applied to my employee number along with my vacation hours which are directly tied to how many hours I work each day. At the end of my shift, as I am tipped out or payed, credit card payments are automatically recorded on my name for tax and company record purposes. Without such automation, it would take more than hundreds of hours to calculate each of these aspects and many more for the 90 servers that work and my store's location and all 3 other large stores located in Salt Lake. This cuts back on wages, allowing one or just a handful of employees to manage and interpret the data given verses having dozens of employee record, transfer and record the same data.

This is only one of millions of examples in my own life of how data has be transferred and managed facilitation my life and the lives of many.

Learning about and how to create and use data bases is a very important tool and can make an employee very valuable in a business. My father who majored in Information Systems at BYU, and runs a successful law firm stated, "today more than ever, in almost any business, it is vital to be up to date on the latest and easiest way to store and transfer data. This can give a business a competitive advantage and also help to cut back on overhead costs" (Davis, Halston)

References:
Davis, Halston Attorney at Law. Sept. 25, 2009. Intervewer Jordan Davis