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Why To Learn DBMS

DBMS was developed to overcome the deficiencies of traditional file-based data management. A modern DBMS represents real-world entities as tables, isolates data from applications, reduces data redundancy through normalization, and maintains consistency. It also features a query language that allows users to efficiently retrieve and manipulate data in powerful ways not possible with traditional file systems.

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Why To Learn DBMS

DBMS was developed to overcome the deficiencies of traditional file-based data management. A modern DBMS represents real-world entities as tables, isolates data from applications, reduces data redundancy through normalization, and maintains consistency. It also features a query language that allows users to efficiently retrieve and manipulate data in powerful ways not possible with traditional file systems.

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Why to Learn DBMS?

Traditionally, data was organized in file formats. DBMS was a new concept then, and all the
research was done to make it overcome the deficiencies in traditional style of data
management. A modern DBMS has the following characteristics −

 Real-world entity − A modern DBMS is more realistic and uses real-world entities to
design its architecture. It uses the behavior and attributes too. For example, a school
database may use students as an entity and their age as an attribute.
 Relation-based tables − DBMS allows entities and relations among them to form tables.
A user can understand the architecture of a database just by looking at the table names.
 Isolation of data and application − A database system is entirely different than its data.
A database is an active entity, whereas data is said to be passive, on which the database
works and organizes. DBMS also stores metadata, which is data about data, to ease its
own process.
 Less redundancy − DBMS follows the rules of normalization, which splits a relation when
any of its attributes is having redundancy in values. Normalization is a mathematically
rich and scientific process that reduces data redundancy.
 Consistency − Consistency is a state where every relation in a database remains
consistent. There exist methods and techniques, which can detect attempt of leaving
database in inconsistent state. A DBMS can provide greater consistency as compared to
earlier forms of data storing applications like file-processing systems.
 Query Language − DBMS is equipped with query language, which makes it more
efficient to retrieve and manipulate data. A user can apply as many and as different
filtering options as required to retrieve a set of data. Traditionally it was not possible
where file-processing system was used.

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