You should select a data storage problem of your interest and identify the various pieces of data that should be stored in a database. The Proposal for the Term Project, MS Word doc - 500 words minimum, should include:
1) Name and main idea of the project
2) Purpose and goal of the project
3) Possible users and administrators
4) How is this work being done now, without the database and how will the database specifically improve the process
5) Data elements to be involved: entities, attributes
6) Platform to be used: what type of database. (i.e. Short term will use MS Access, for ease of use and prototyping but long term will switch to a more robust platform like MS SQL, or Oracle, or remain in MS Access)
7) Other interesting related points
This is what I have, but it just needs to be changed a little and more detail:
The main idea of the project is managing data growth for companies using databases. Managing data growth while improving administrative efficiency requires a lot of work and a lot of updates to the database. The possible users would be the employees of the business and the business would have a database manager who manages the entire database. The database manager would receive feedback from the employees on issues with the database as well ideas that would make the database run quicker and more efficiently. The database would ultimately improve the process by speeding up query times when the employee needs to retrieve information for a customer or for statistical data. One of the main data elements that would be used would be entities. Entities are used to identify and describe all pieces of information used by the company applications. It is important because it can be re-used with different transactions like an address. When using an entity with a transaction, it can create shipping and billing addresses from the address entity. The platform that would be used first would be Microsoft Access because the company would be small and Microsoft Access is fairly easy to use with new employees. Once the company started growing, the database would be transferred over to MS SQL, and then onto Oracle if needed.