Projects - IDQ

The essay

During a 10 week period we are going to construct a tool for easy viewing of database structures and conduct surveys, studies, evaluations about the tool. Focus is on making an intuitive tool for databases which manages to meet up to a good design. The users experience of the program is a good indication key for success. The viewer project is the tool that's going to be discusses and evaluated in the paper. The tool itself is seen as a contribution or add-on to database tools like phpMyAdmin or mysql administror. Who are we? We are undergraduate students studying systems development and informatics at Umeå University in Sweden and we are in the final stage of our studies.

Viewer

Viewer is the kind of tool that you would like to have if you where set out to get a glimpse at the structure of a database. It generates a graphical interactive space containing objects in the shape of boxes. The boxes are representations of tables and columns in a database. The objects are loaded from an XML file which gets database structure from php script in communication with an sql based database. The viewer is under construction and is far from finalization at this moment.

Selector

This is going to be a tool/program for people that don't have a great knowledge in SQL or want to have an oversight of their complex database structure. Selector is going to be a interactive tool for managing database structure and also to give you a better overview of your database.(Selector is currently not under development)