Financial Information Management
FIM: Databases
Stefano Grazioli
Debriefing
 Still doing well
 Lab
 Easy meter
You are a financial analyst at a
broker firm….
Many of our customers invest for
short amounts of time on Google.
They sell their shares within a few
weeks…. I wonder: do they make any
money out of it?
You do the talking
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Name, major
Learning objectives
Things you like about the class
Things that can be improved
Strengths / Attitude towards the
Tournament
Financial Information Management
FIM: Databases
Stefano Grazioli
Why do we need Databases?
 Program (e.g., VBA) data is volatile
 Data in one place for everyone to use
 Indispensable in commerce
DBs vs. DBMSs
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A database (DB) is an organized collection of data
A database Management System (DBMS) is a software that
provides data-related functionality
User location
User or
User or
program
‘Client’
program
program
Data center
DBMS
DBMS: Access, Oracle, IBM DB2, SQL Server, MySQL...
DBs and the Web
User location
User or
User or
program
Browser
program
program
Data center
Web
server
DBMS
Relational DBMS
When a DBMS organizes your data so that they appear
to the users as TABLES, that DBMS is a Relational DBMS,
or RDBMS.
Client
program
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RDBMS
Is Excel a DB, a DBMS, a RDBMS?
Financial Information Management
Congratulations!
You are hired at SmallBank
Homework
You are a Business Intelligence
analyst at SmallBank
Welcome! So glad that you are here and can help us with Business
Intelligence! I have so many business questions for you…
(1) Who are our customers in Austin, TX? I need a list of first names,
last names and IDs
(2) What are the rates that we offered on our loans? Prepare a report
with the loan IDs and rates for the loans under $50,000,000
(3) ….
Please access our MS SQL Server and create these reports for me…
Accessing Business Data
User location
SQL Client
Visual Studio
Sql queries
Data center
RDBMS
MS SQL Server
F-sg6m-s4
SmallBank data:
Loan, Loan
Officer,
Customer,
Insurance Plan
Example Table: Loan Officer
ACTUAL TABLE
DIAGRAM
LO id
f name
l name
phone
demo
Small Bank DB: Data Dictionary
 Loan
 l_id = the loan unique id
 principal, rate, date_due,
 Loan officer
 lo_id = the loan officer’s unique id
 f_name, l_name, phone
 Customer
 c_id = the customer’s unique id
 f_name, l_name, city, state
 Insurance plan
 coverage = maximum amount covered
 premium = amount to pay every year
Financial Information Management
WINIT
What Is New
In Technology?
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SQL Queries
SQL
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Structured Query Language
The standard language for databases
70s:
- Codd
- SEQUEL – Structured English QUEry Language
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commercialized it in 1979
1986 ISO/ANSI
Sometimes sought as a required skill in interviews
SQL EXAMPLE: A QUERY
SELECT First_Name, Last_Name,
ssn
FROM StudentTbl
WHERE gpa > 3.0
ORDER BY Last_Name;
4+2 BASIC SQL COMMANDS
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SELECT = ‘search’
INSERT a new row
UPDATE a existing row
DELETE a row
 CREATE a table
 DROP a table
Reading the Data Model
Primary key: a unique
identifier used to
retrieve the record
Reading the Relationships
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One
5
2
3
Many
4
Navigating the Relationships (‘join’)
FK
foreign key: a PK in
another table, used
to link the two tables
FK
FK
FK
FK
Joins are commonsense
If I give you c_id ‘4977’,
can you give me the
phone numbers of the
loan officers for that
client?
SQL Query
Select loan_officer.phone
from customer_in_loan, loan, loan_officer
where
customer_in_loan.c_id = '4977' and
customer_in_loan.l_id = loan.l_id and
loan.lo_id = loan_officer.lo_id