Title: Fact Finding
Headings: Fact Finding
Fact Finding
Table of Contents
What is Fact-finding in DBMS?
When Are Fact-Finding Techniques Used?
What Facts Collect?
Fact-Finding Techniques

Content: Fact-Finding Techniques
A database developer commonly uses several fact-finding techniques during a single database project. There are five widely used fact-finding techniques: Examining documentation
Interviewing
Observing the enterprise in action
Research
Questionnaires
Let us discuss in brief each of them: Examining documentation can be helpful when you try to gain some insight as to how the requirement for a database arose. You may also find that documentation can help to acquire information on the part of the enterprise associated with the problem. If the problem relates to the current system, there should have to be documents associated with that system. By examining documents, forms, reports, and files associated with the current system, you can quickly gain some thoughtful concepts out of the system. Interviewing is the most frequently used, and usually the most useful, fact-finding procedure used. We can interview to collect information from person face-to-face. There can be several objectives for using interviewing, such as finding out facts, verifying those facts, clarifying these released facts, generating enthusiasm, getting the end-user involved, identifying requirements, and gathering ideas and opinions.