Student attendance reporting prototype using SSQL
Courtney Humphries, Dawn E. Wilkins · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2013
At the University of Mississippi, there is an initiative to use barcode scanners on large classrooms to better manage attendance records. Like most major universities, any plans to introduce a new system of any kind on a large scale can require a significant amount of financial support, human resources, and approval from many departments. Before a campus wide system is implemented, it is often a good approach to build a prototype system to better estimate implementation feasibility and proposed benefits versus cost. This paper demonstrates how the Simple Stream Query Language (SSQL) can be used to help rapidly develop a prototype reporting system focused on querying data from these barcode scanners before a large-scale system is implemented. SSQL is an easy-to-use data stream query language that runs in a standalone interpreter.