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4.RDBMS Concepts: 1. What Is Database?

A database is a collection of logically related data for a specific purpose. A database management system (DBMS) allows users to define, create, and manipulate this database. Together, the database and DBMS are known as a database system. Key advantages of a DBMS include reducing data redundancy, restricting unauthorized access, supporting multiple users, enforcing data integrity, and providing backup and recovery. A view is a virtual table derived from real base tables, allowing for logical data independence by insulating users from changes made to the base tables.

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4.RDBMS Concepts: 1. What Is Database?

A database is a collection of logically related data for a specific purpose. A database management system (DBMS) allows users to define, create, and manipulate this database. Together, the database and DBMS are known as a database system. Key advantages of a DBMS include reducing data redundancy, restricting unauthorized access, supporting multiple users, enforcing data integrity, and providing backup and recovery. A view is a virtual table derived from real base tables, allowing for logical data independence by insulating users from changes made to the base tables.

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4.

RDBMS Concepts

1. What is database?
A database is a logically coherent collection of data with some inherent meaning,

representing some aspect of real world and which is designed, built and populated with data

for a specific purpose.

2. What is DBMS?
It is a collection of programs that enables user to create and maintain a
database. In other words it is general-purpose software that provides the users with
the processes of defining, constructing and manipulating the database for various
applications.

3. What is a Database system?


The database and DBMS software together is called as Database system.

4. Advantages of DBMS?
➢ Redundancy is controlled.
➢ Unauthorised access is restricted.
➢ Providing multiple user interfaces.
➢ Enforcing integrity constraints.
➢ Providing backup and recovery.

1. What is extension and intension?


Extension -
It is the number of tuples present in a table at any instance. This is time
dependent.
Intension -
It is a constant value that gives the name, structure of table and the constraints laid
on it.

2. What is Data Independence?


Data independence means that “the application is independent of the storage structure and
access strategy of data”. In other words, The ability to modify the schema definition in one level
should not affect the schema definition in the next higher level.
Two types of Data Independence:

➢ Physical Data Independence: Modification in physical level should not


affect the logical level.
➢ Logical Data Independence: Modification in logical level should affect
the view level.
NOTE: Logical Data Independence is more difficult to achieve

7.What is a view? How it is related to data independence?


A view may be thought of as a virtual table, that is, a table that does not really exist in its
own right but is instead derived from one or more underlying base table. In other words, there is
no stored file that direct represents the view instead a definition of view is stored in data
dictionary.
Growth and restructuring of base tables is not reflected in views. Thus the view can
insulate users from the effects of restructuring and growth in the database. Hence accounts for
logical data independence.

8.What is Data Model?

A collection of conceptual tools for describing data, data relationships data


semantics and constraints.

9.What is E-R model?

This data model is based on real world that consists of basic objects called
entities and of relationship among these objects. Entities are described in a
database by a set of attributes.

10.What is Object Oriented model?

This model is based on collection of objects. An object contains values stored


in instance variables with in the object. An object also contains bodies of code that
operate on the object. These bodies of code are called methods. Objects that
contain same types of values and the same methods are grouped together into
classes.

11.What is an Entity?

It is a 'thing' in the real world with an independent existence.


12.What is an Entity type?

It is a collection (set) of entities that have same attributes.

13.What is an Entity set?

It is a collection of all entities of particular entity type in the database.

14.What is an Extension of entity type?

The collections of entities of a particular entity type are grouped together into
an entity set.

15.What is Weak Entity set?

An entity set may not have sufficient attributes to form a primary key, and its
primary key compromises of its partial key and primary key of its parent entity,
then it is said to be Weak Entity set.

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