Using SQL to Optimize Kudler Foods' Efficiency
As Kudler Foods grows and achieves its mission statement, database management will be key to increasing profits and maximizing efficiency. Implementation of an SQL database will optimize your employees' performance, allowing Kudler Foods to realize opportunities to expand and achieve profits.
New businesses can get by with simple database structures that allow simple searches. For example, a simple database search would allow a manager to see how much vacation time a particular employee has. However, if a manager wanted to generate complex reports about employee efficiency, such as combining vacation time with benefits, salary, and production achievement information, a simple search would not be able to provide complex synthesis of information to generate such a report. An SQL database, on the other hand, could achieve this. Being able to generate reports and analyses that combine data from many different files is the hallmark of relational databases like SQL (Gilfillan, 2002). Relational databases relate information from a variety of file sources. This would allow Kudler Foods to maintain a number of different files containing a variety of information. Information could be pooled, as in the example just given, to give managers new insights into productivity, sales, and the efficiency and cost-benefit relationships of any number of company processes.
Careful research and analysis of systems as they evolve is key to building a successful base upon which a quickly-growing company such as Kudler Foods will thrive. By being able to perform creative analyses in-house, staff can track the effectiveness of programs and cull out those that are achieving results from those that are wasting company resources. Large companies such as AFC Enterprises, Timex, and Volvo utilize SQL to meet specific management needs (Microsoft Website, 2004). For example, AFC Enterprises, Inc., a leading restau...