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• Database system development life cycle.

• Database Design stages


Database system development life cycle.
• System definition
• Database design
• Database implementation
• Loading or data conversion
• Application conversion
• Testing and validation
• Operation
• Monitoring and maintenance
Database Design stages
• Design logical and physical structure of one or more
databases

• Accommodate the information needs of the users in an


organization for a defined set of applications

• Goals of database design

• Very hard to accomplish and measure

• Often begins with informal and incomplete requirements


Database Design stages
• Main phases of the overall database design
 Requirements collection and analysis

 Conceptual database design

 Choice of a DBMS

 Data model mapping (also called logical database design)

 Physical database design


Database Design stages
Database Design stages
• Heart of the database design process
 Conceptual database design (Phase 2)

 Data model mapping (Phase 4)

 Physical database design (Phase 5)

 Database system implementation and tuning (Phase 6)


Phase 1: Requirements Collection and Analysis
• Identify application areas and user groups

• Study and analyze documentation

• Study current operating environment

• Collect written responses from users


Phase 2: Conceptual Database Design
• Conceptual Schema Design

• Developed a high level description of the data to be stored in the database

along the constrains that are known to hold over this data.

• Transaction Design

 Specify transactions at a conceptual level

 Identify input/output and functional behavior


• Example ER diagram
Phase 2: Conceptual Database Design
Phase 3: Choice of a DBMS
• Costs to consider
• Software acquisition cost
• Maintenance cost
• Hardware acquisition cost
• Database creation and conversion cost
• Personnel cost
• Training cost
• Operating cost
Phase 4: Data Model Mapping (Logical
Database Design)
• Convert the conceptual database design in to a database
schema.
• In data model of selected DBMS.
• Stages
– System-independent mapping
Phase 4: Data Model Mapping (Logical
Database Design)
Phase 5: Physical Database Design
• Choose specific file storage structures and access paths for
the database files.
• Achieve good performance.
Phase 6: Database System Implementation and
Tuning

• Typically responsibility of the DBA


• Compose DDL
• Load database
• Convert data from earlier systems
• Database programs implemented by application
programmers
• Most systems include monitoring utility to collect
performance statistics
• Database design life cycle.

• Database design steps.

• Conceptual database design

• Logical database design

• Physical database design.


• Database design life cycle
• Database design process
Requirement analysis
Conceptual database design
Logical database design
Physical database design
Security design
• Briefly explain database development life cycle process?
• What are the main steps in database design phase?

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