I.

Company Profile

THE D I Y (DO IT YOURSELF) SHOP CORP

Business Type: Hardware Stores

• Air Conditioning

• Automotive Repair

• Crafts and Recreation

• Decorating

• Electrical and Lighting

• Exterior Home Improvement

• Gardening and Patio

• Going Green

• Hardware and Tools

• Heating and Ventilating

• Household and Cleaning

• Interior Home Improvement

• Painting

• Personal Finance and Legal

• Plumbing

• Real Estate

• Remodeling

• Woodworking

Do it yourself (or DIY) is a term used to describe building, modifying, or repairing

of something without the aid of experts or professionals. The phrase "do it yourself"
came into common usage in the 1950s in reference to home improvement projects
which people might choose to complete independently.

In recent years, the term DIY has taken on a broader meaning that covers a wide
range of skill sets. DIY is associated with the international alternative rock, punk
rock, and indie rock music scenes; indymedia networks, pirate radio stations, and
the zone community. In this context, DIY is related to the Arts and Crafts movement,
in that it offers an alternative to modern consumer culture's emphasis on relying on
others to satisfy needs.

Home improvement

The DIY scene is a re-introduction (often to urban and suburban dwellers) of the
old pattern of personal involvement and use of skills in upkeep of a house or
apartment, making clothes; maintenance of cars, computers, websites; or any
material aspect of living. The philosopher Alan Watts (from the "Houseboat Summit"
panel discussion in a 1967 edition of the San Francisco Oracle) reflected a growing
sentiment:

Our educational system, in its entirety, does nothing to give us any kind of
material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make
clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely
fundamental things of life. The whole education that we get for our children in school
is entirely in terms of abstractions. It trains you to be an insurance salesman or a
bureaucrat, or some kind of cerebral character.

In the 1970s, DIY spread through the North American population of college- and
recent-college-graduate age groups. In part, this movement involved the renovation
of affordable, rundown older homes. But it also related to various projects
expressing the social and environmental vision of the 1960s and early 1970s. The
young visionary Stewart Brand, working with friends and family, and initially using
the most basic of typesetting and page-layout tools, published the first edition of The
Whole Earth Catalog (subtitled Access to Tools) in late 1968.

The first Catalog, and its successors, used a broad definition of the term "tools".
There were informational tools, such as books (often technical in nature),
professional journals, courses, classes, and the like. There were specialized,
designed items, such as carpenter's and mason's tools, garden tools, welding
equipment, chainsaws, fiberglass materials, etc. — even early personal computers.
(The designer J. Baldwin acted as editor to include such items, writing many of the
reviews.) The Catalog's publication both emerged from and spurred the great wave
of experimentalism, convention-breaking, and do-it-yourself attitude of the late
1960s. Often copied, the Catalog appealed to a wide cross-section of people in
North America and had a broad influence.

In the mid-1990s, DIY home-improvement content began to find its way onto the
World Wide Web. HouseNet was the earliest bulletin-board style site where users
could share information. HomeTips.com, established in early 1995, was among the
first Web-based sites to deliver free extensive DIY home-improvement content
created by expert authors. Since the late 1990s, DIY has exploded on the Web
through thousands of sites.

The terms "DIY" and "do-it-yourself" are also used to describe:

• Self-publishing books, zines, and alternative comics.

• bands or solo artists releasing their music on self-funded record labels

• trading of mixtapes as part of cassette culture

• crafts such as knitting, sewing, handmade jewelry, ceramics, etc.[2]

• designing business cards, invitations, etc.

DIY as a subculture could be said to have begun with the punk movement of the
1970s.[4] Instead of traditional means of bands reaching their audiences through
large music labels, bands began recording, manufacturing albums and merchandise,
booking their own tours, and creating opportunities for smaller bands to get wider
recognition and gain cult status through repetitive low-cost DIY touring. The
burgeoning zine movement took up coverage of and promotion of the underground
punk scenes, and significantly altered the way fans interacted with musicians. Zines
quickly branched off from being hand-made music magazines to become more
personal; they quickly became one of the youth culture's gateways to DIY culture.
This led to tutorial zines showing others how to make their own shirts, posters, zines,
books, food, etc.

As the DIY phenomenon continues to grow, the trend is slowly becoming a part
of many weddings. With the cost of a wedding rising, many people are becoming
more daring. Where one used to hire out for each individual service, many are now
choosing to do it themselves. Not only does this save them financially, it allows for
people to individualize their event.

II. Project Profile

 1. Brief and complete project definition

The system is a pseudo-relational database management system that users can create tables,
queries, forms and reports, and connect them together with macros. Advanced users can use
VBA to write rich solutions with advanced data manipulation and user control.

2. System requirements (hardware,software network)

Microsoft Access is used to create simple database solutions. Access tables support a variety
of standard field types, indices, and referential integrity. Access also includes a query interface,
forms to display and enter data, and reports for printing. The underlying Jet database, which
contains these objects, is multiuser-aware and handles record-locking and referential integrity
including cascading, updates and deletes.

Simple tasks can be automated through macros with point-and-click options. Microsoft
Access is very popular among non-programmers who can create visually pleasing and relatively
advanced solutions on their own. It is also easy to place a database on a network and have
multiple users share and update data without overwriting each other's work. Data is locked at the
record level which is significantly different from Excel which locks the entire spreadsheet.

III. About existing system

The existing or the current system of DIY (Do It Yourself) is a system that
organize the number of information of DIY, namely; DIY, Item, and the Sales Report

The existing system has three (3) tables, DIY: Tables, Item: Table,
Sales_Report:Table.

Five (5) queries which are the Item Query_Check Valve, Item Query_GI Nipple,
Item Query_JM, Item Query_KB, Sales_Report Query,

The existing system has also four (4) forms which are for Homepage, DIY, Item,
and Sales Report.

Two (2) reports were added to the existing system which is for Item and
Sales_Report.

The existing syste

2. Limitations of existing system

` The current system’s limitations are, the collected information is a partial to the
broad area of the DIY with its item and sales report. The system is directly operated
only to the item category, item description and item amount.

3. Scope of the proposed system (advantages over existing system)

The scope of the proposed system is to develop a system that get hold or to
administer the data and information about DIY (Do It Yourself). The main purpose of
the system is: 1. to easily organize the great number of information of DIY, namely;
DIY, Item, Employee, Customer, and the Sales Report by the use of tables; 2. to
clearly examine the flaws with reports references and; 3. to clarify the status of the
data collected which can be manage in the queries.

The existing system has five (5) tables, DIY: Tables, Customer: Table, Item,:
Table, Employee:Table, Sales_Report:Table.

Eight (8) queries which are the Item Query_Check Valve, Item Query_GI Nipple,
Item Query_JM, Item Query_KB, Sales_Report Query, Sales_Report Query By
Month of January, Sales_Report Query By Month of February, Sales_Report Query
By Month of March.

The existing system has also six (6) forms which are for Homepage, DIY,
Customer, Item, Employee, and Sales Report.

Four (4) reports were added to the existing system which are for Customer,
Employee, Item and Sales_Report.

The proposed system’s limitations are, the collected information is a partial to the
broad area of the DIY with its different department. The system is directly operate for
the department of Hardware and Tools, Household and Cleaning, Interior Home
Improvement, Plumbing and Exterior Home Improvement.

The proposed system can identify the employee who has the leading sales
record, provides a total amount of the sales report quarterly.

3. DFD
DATA DICTIONARY

COLUMN SYNONYM DATA DESCRIPTION NOTES Validation

TYPE

ITEM_NUM ITEM Numbe

BER NUMBE r
R

ITEM_CAT ITEM Text

EGORY CATEG
ORY

ITEM_AMO ITEM Curren

UNT AMOUN cy
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 Implementation and Testing

1. Test Cases

In testing the Inventory Transaction database, sales total will be calculated

quarterly (months) based on the employees’ sales record. Using this formula;
SALES_TOTAL= SALES_QUANTITY*ITEM_AMOUNT

We can exactly derive the sales total within four months. In this system, we can
determine easily whether the company is gaining profit.

2. Implementation Status

a. Installation

In installing this system, Microsoft Office Access is the most necessary

software. The installation procedure is a quick and easy process. The DIY
Company can easily manipulate the database system because of its user-
friendly interface.

b. End-User Training

The target end-users of this database are the employees and managers.
They can easily input the values essential in the database to make the
calculation process of the sales total easier. Since this database is really
convenient to use, a little knowledge is required in this, such as proper typing
in the input fields and good decision making.

3. Proposed Extension (Future Enhancement)

FIELD TEST CASE OUTCOM

E

SALES_REPORT SALES_TOTAL=
SALES_N ITEM_N SALES_ SALES_Q ITEM_AM SALES_QUANTITY*I SALES
UMBER UMBER MONTH UANTITY OUNT TEM_AMOUNT TOTAL
41.00 TIF0192 March 34 309.75 10,531.50
2010 10,531.50
34 309.75