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29.concept of Database With Its Four Main Components

The document divides a database management system into four major components: hardware, software, data, and database access language. The hardware includes computers and storage devices. The software acts as an interface that allows users to store, access, and update data. It interprets the database access language. The data is what the system is designed to store and utilize. The database access language allows users to write commands to interact with the data through queries and data manipulation statements.

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29.concept of Database With Its Four Main Components

The document divides a database management system into four major components: hardware, software, data, and database access language. The hardware includes computers and storage devices. The software acts as an interface that allows users to store, access, and update data. It interprets the database access language. The data is what the system is designed to store and utilize. The database access language allows users to write commands to interact with the data through queries and data manipulation statements.

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29.

(b)the database management system can be divided into four major components,
they are:

1. Hardware
2. Software
3. Data
4. Database Access Language

Let's have a simple diagram to see how they all fit together to form a database.

1.Hardware
When we say Hardware, we mean computer, hard disks, I/O channels for data, and
any other physical component involved before any data is successfully stored into
the memory.
When we run Oracle or MySQL on our personal computer, then our computer's Hard
Disk, our Keyboard using which we type in all the commands, our computer's RAM,
ROM all become a part of the DBMS hardware.
2.Software
This is the main component, as this is the program which controls everything. The
DBMS software is more like a wrapper around the physical database, which provides
us with an easy-to-use interface to store, access and update data.
The DBMS software is capable of understanding the Database Access Language
and intrepret it into actual database commands to execute them on the DB.

3.Data
Data is that resource, for which DBMS was designed. The motive behind the
creation of DBMS was to store and utilise data.
In a typical Database, the user saved Data is present and meta data is stored.

4.Database Access Language


Database Access Language is a simple language designed to write commands to
access, insert, update and delete data stored in any database.
A user can write commands in the Database Access Language and submit it to the
DBMS for execution, which is then translated and executed by the DBMS.
User can create new databases, tables, insert data, fetch stored data, update data
and delete the data using the access language.

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