Database Management Tools for Planning

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This article develops a framework for assessing the database management needs of planners. A typical planner with increasingly complex data management requirements provides the context for matching the features of database management packages with specific information management problems. The complexity of database management needs depends upon the amount of data and whether the data (1) can be stored adequately as a single table, (2) are static or continually changing, (3) are private or must be shared by multiple users (or agencies), (4) must often be transformed into other formats and reports or juxtaposed with information from other sources, and (5) must be accessed interactively for modeling and analysis purposes. Planners are encouraged to think of database management tools as mechanisms for accumulating knowledge in ways that would otherwise be too cumbersome, time-consuming, or expensive.

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