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Go to the Assignments section of your MyLab to complete these writing exercises.
5-20. Go to http://aws.amazon.com and search for AWS database offerings. Explain
the differences among Amazon’s RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and Red-
shift services. Which of these three would you recommend for storing Falcon
Security’s data? (By the way, whenever you query the Internet for any AWS
product, be sure to include the keyword AWS in your search. Otherwise, your
search will result in Amazon’s lists of books about the item you’re searching for.)
5-21. Suppose you are the accounts manager at a wholesale auto parts distribu-
tor. You use spreadsheets to keep track of just about everything. So do your
employees. You have hundreds of different spreadsheets to update, back up, and
share. Some of them are getting extremely large and unwieldy. You’re worried
about losing track of them, or worse, having a malicious employee permanently
destroy them. A new hire fresh out of college says building a database would
solve most of your problems. How would you determine if a database would
really solve your problems? If you chose to develop a centralized database, how
would you choose the employees to create the database? What criteria would
you use to select those employees? How would you justify allocating people and
money to developing this database?

enDnoteS

1. MySQL was supported by the MySQL company. In 2008, that company 4. Imperva, “Imperva Web Application Attack Report,” July 2013,
was acquired by Sun Microsystems, which was, in turn, acquired by accessed May 19, 2014, www.imperva.com/docs/HII_Web_Application_
Oracle later that year. However, because MySQL is open source, Oracle Attack_Report_Ed4.pdf.
does not own the source code. 5. To learn more about how to prevent SQL injection you can visit OWASP.
2. Watch out for confusion between a database application and a database org. It has a helpful SQL Injection Prevention Cheat Sheet that explains
application program. A database application includes forms, reports, how to parameterize queries and use stored procedures to stop SQL
queries, and database application programs. injection. See www.owasp.org/index.php/SQL_Injection_Prevention_
3. See David Kroenke and David Auer, Database Concepts, 7th ed., pp. Cheat_Sheet.
81–86 (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2015) for more 6. Performance and Prestige Cars Limited, The Premier Car Company
information. for Specialist Car Servicing and Repairs, www.a-cl.co.uk, accessed on
January 2016.