Design and Development of Database Management System for Commercial Institution

Abstract Information is a very important aspect in our day-to~clay activities to ensure effective communication. As result of this, Information Communication Technology plays a great role to guarantee efficient and effective communication within and among different institutions and organizations. In response to this, each organization/institution strives to make sure that there is a secure means of disseminating, storing and retrieving of information within their boundaries, This calls for an information system that is capable of handling all these tasks without fail. The administration department of Kenya Commercial Bank Uganda limited Kampala Road Branch has been used as a case study. With the use of computer database systems, it becomes easier to run and effectively coordinate the operations of the department bearing in mind the environment under which it operates. Consequently, in this project, the researcher has displayed database development using the system development lifecycle to come up with a good database design for ease of operations within the department, using Microsoft Access The researcher used the following methods to collect data. The primary methods included; Observation, face to face, interview, questionnaire, and secondary method included; journal examination and analysis. Since the system is under operation for it to be implemented with fewer problems, it was recommended for it to be run on windows XP operating system, hard disk size of at least 40GB and RAM size of at least 5 12MB