The documentations produced for each stage of the database development life cycle

When we go through the detail study of the database development life cycle we can identify that throughout the database system development lifecycle the database developer needs to capture facts about the current and or future system.

 

So we can see that to full this requirement number of documentations are produced for each stage during the database development life cycle. We can summarize the documentations that are implement during each pages as follows,

 

Phase	Documentation
Initial database study	Mission statements and objectives of database system Definition of scope and boundry of database application Definition of user views to be supported User and system requiremets specification
Database design	Conceptual/logical database design ER model(s) Data dictionary Relational schema, Physical database design
Implementation and data model	DBMS evaluation and recommendations
Testing and evaluation	Testing strategies used, anlysis of test results
Operation	User manual
Maintenance and monitoring	Analysis of performance results Modified user's requirements and systems specifications