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Difference Between File System and DBMS

The document compares file system and database management system (DBMS) approaches. In a file system approach, each department stores and controls its own data using file structures managed by a data processing specialist, which can lead to data redundancy across files. A DBMS centralizes the data and stores it only once to avoid redundancy, allowing different users to access the meaningful related data and perform operations like insertion, deletion, and selection.

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Difference Between File System and DBMS

The document compares file system and database management system (DBMS) approaches. In a file system approach, each department stores and controls its own data using file structures managed by a data processing specialist, which can lead to data redundancy across files. A DBMS centralizes the data and stores it only once to avoid redundancy, allowing different users to access the meaningful related data and perform operations like insertion, deletion, and selection.

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Difference between File System and

DBMS
File System Approach
File based systems were an early attempt to computerize the manual system. It is
also called a traditional based approach in which a decentralized approach was taken
where each department stored and controlled its own data with the help of a data
processing specialist. The main role of a data processing specialist was to create the
necessary computer file structures, and also manage the data within structures and
design some application programs that create reports based on file data.

Consider an example of a student's file system. The student file will contain
information regarding the student (i.e. roll no, student name, course etc.). Similarly,
we have a subject file that contains information about the subject and the result file
which contains the information regarding the result.

Some fields are duplicated in more than one file, which leads to data redundancy. So
to overcome this problem, we need to create a centralized system, i.e. DBMS
approach.
DBMS:
A database approach is a well-organized collection of data that are related in a
meaningful way which can be accessed by different users but stored only once in a
system. The various operations performed by the DBMS system are: Insertion,
deletion, selection, sorting etc.

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