UNIT-I

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Data - Data is meaningful known raw facts that can be processed and stored as information.
Database - Database is a collection of interrelated and organized data. In general, it is a
collection of files (tables).
Why Database:
 Conventionally, in an information system, the information is obtained by developing
the systems and integrating them. This calls for breaking the system into various
subsystems and developing the information systems independently.
 In this approach, each system will have its master files and transaction files. They
have to be processed separately at different times, depending upon the needs and
schedules.
 The file layouts and the access methods could be different in different systems.
Therefore, the files will be updated at different times. This approach does affect the
quality of the information across all the systems due to various reasons.
 The data in many systems are common, and there is repetition of data storage in
various systems. This called data redundancy. The redundancy of data gives rise to
problems of keeping the data current and same in all the files. The data management
is complex in such a situation.
 The reports generated out of such files show discrepancies in the information. Since
the data files are different for different systems, data sharing is not possible. These
files need to be created at different times.
 Transaction updating is also carried out at different times. It requires the increase of a
magnetic media for storage because the systems are developed independently.
 The redundancy causes lack of integrity and inconsistency of the data in the various
files.
DBMS - Database Management System (DBMS) is a collection of interrelated data
[usually called database] and a set of programs to access, update and manage those data
[which form part of management system]
OR
It is a software package to facilitate creation and maintenance of computerized database.
• Database management system is designed to manage large bodies of information.
• The DBMS is a general purpose software system that facilitates the process of
defining constructing and manipulating database.
• Defining database: specifying the datatypes, structures
• Constructing database: process of storing the data on some storage medium.
• Manipulating database: using queries to retrieve the specific data, updating database.
• Another important functions provides by the DBMS includes protecting database.
• Protection includes system protection against hardware and software malfunction and
security protection against unauthorized access
A Database Management System (DBMS) is a set of programs that manages any number of
databases.
A DBMS is responsible for:
• accessing data
• inserting, updating, and deleting data
• security
• integrity, facilitated by: locking,logging,application-defined rules, including triggers
• supporting batch and on-line programs
• facilitating backups and recoveries
• optimizing performance
• maximizing availability
• maintaining the catalog and directory of database objects
• managing the buffer pools
• acting as an interface to other systems programs
• supporting user interface packages, such as the popular SQL interface for relational
database systems

CHARACTERSTICS OF THE DATABASE APPROACH:

In file processing, each user implements the files needed for a specific application.
Ex: A bank officer wants to collect information about customers in a particular postal code
area. A new program must be implemented for this.
• But in the database approach, a single database is maintained that is defined once and
then access by various users.
• Here data can be accessed by queries.
The characteristics are:
 Self describing nature of a database system.
 Insulation between programs and data.
 Easy operation implementation
 Support multiple views of data.
 Sharing of data.

Self describing nature of a database system:

• The database system contains not only the database itself but also contains a complete
definition or description of database structure. This definition is stored in DBMS catalog,
which contains information such as the structure of each file , the data type, storage format.
The information stored in the catalog is called metadata.
• The catalog is used by the DBMS software , database users who need information
about the database structure.

Insulation between programs and data:

• In file processing, the structure of data files is embedded in application programs.
• But in database approach, the structure of data files is stored in the DBMS catalog
separately from the access programs. We call this property program-data independence.
Easy Operation implementation:
All the operations like insert, delete, update, search etc. are carried out in a flexible and easy
way. Database makes it very simple to implement these operations. A user with little
knowledge can perform these operations. This characteristic of database makes it more
powerful.
Support of multiple views of data:
Database can be accessed by many users. Different users require different view of the
database. A view is a subset of the database.
Sharing of data: DBMS allow multiple users to access the database at the same time.
DBMS must include the concurrency control software because several users try to update the
same data at a time.
Example: When several reservation clerks try to assign a seat on an airline flight, the DBMS
should ensure that each seat can be accessed by only one clerk at a time for assignment to a
passenger.

ADVANTAGES OF DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

1. Reduction of Redundancies
i) Redundancy means duplication (making the same copy again). Reduction of
redundancy means avoiding duplication of data and reducing the total amount of storage
space required.
ii) It also reduces the extra processing time to search the required data in a large mass of
data.
iii) Another advantage of avoiding duplication is the elimination of the inconsistencies
(difficult) in searching the exact data file required.
2. Data Independence and Efficient Access
i) Data base programs in the data base are independent of their storage details.
ii) The conceptual schema provides physical storage details and external schema
provides logical storage details i.e. the conceptual schema provides independence from
external schema. It means physical storage details are independent from logical storage
details.
iii) DBMS strongly provides the efficient access, retrieval of the stored information,
including support for very large files, index structures in query optimization.
3. Data Integrity
i) Data integrity means that the data values entered in the database must be checked to
ensure that they fall within a specified range are of correct format.
For example the value for the age of an employee must be in the range of 16 and 55.
ii) Date integrity also checks that if we are referring any field, then that field must exist.
For example a user is not allowed to transfer funds from a existing savings account to an non-
existent savings account.
4. Data Security
i) Data is of vital importance to an organization and must be confidential. Such
confidential data must be secured strongly and may not be by any unauthorised person.
ii) DBA (Database administrator) should ensure that proper and different access
permissions are given to different types of users.
For example a manager can access the salary details of employees in his department only.
5. Reduced Application Development Time
i) Since the DBMS provides several pre-defined functions like concurrency control,
crash recovery, high level query facilities etc. Only application specified code needs to be
written by the users.
6. Data Administration:
i) DBMS facilitates maintenance and administration of date by providing a common
base for a large collection of a data that is shared by several users.
ii) In addition, the DBA ensures the fine-tuning of data representation, periodic back-
ups, ensures proper permissions of data access, monitoring all jobs etc.
7. Concurrent Access:
i) Many uses access a single program concurrently (at the same time) as if their
programs were running in isolation.
ii) The DBMS executes the actions of the program in such a way that the concurrent
access is permitted, but the conflicting operations are not permitted to proceed concurrently.
8. Crash Recovery:
i) The DBMS maintains, continuous log (record) of the changes made to the data , so
that, if there is any system crash by power failure, it can restore the database to a previously
stored consistent state.
ii) That is the actions of incomplete transactions are undone, so that the database stores
only the actions of complete transactions after recovery from a crash.

DISADVANTAGES OF DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM:

There are some disadvantages in DBMS. In some situations they may create unnecessary
problems. At that time, file processing is the best option. The disadvantages of DBMS are,
1) Conversion costs: The older systems in an organization are based on file processing
and/or older database technology. The converting the older systems to modern database
technology is measured in terms of dollars, time and organizational commitment and may
often seems prohibitive to an organization.
2) Installation and Management Cost:
 A multiuser database management system is a large and complex software that has a high
initial cost, requires a staff of trained personnel to install and operate, annual maintenance
etc.
 Installing such a system may also require upgrades to the hardware and data
communication system in the organization.
 Substantial training is required at ongoing basis to keep up with new releases and
upgrades.
3) New Specialized personnel:
 Organizations that adopt the database approach need to hire or train individuals to design
and implement database, provide database administration services and manage a staff or new
people.
 Further, because of the rapid changes in technology, these new people will have to be
retrained or upgraded on a regular basis.
4) Need for explicit Backup and Recovery:
A shared database must be accurate and available at all times. This requires the procedures
that should be developed and used for providing backup copies of data and for restoring a
database when damage occurs.

5) Security Breaches: Centralization also means that the data is accessible from a single
source, namely the database. This increases the severity of security breaches (breaking) and
disrupting the operation of the organization.

DATABASE SYSTEM APPLICATIONS:

Database management system are used by many individuals either directly or indirectly.
Some of the applications of DBMS are listed below.
1) Transactions in Bank: The user accesses the bank database for crediting or debiting the
account. The bank database stores the details of individuals customers, their account, loans
etc.
2) Ticket Reservation: For schedule information and for reserving the ticket, we access
the database of airlines. The database should be reliable.
3) Students of Universities: Universities have database of various courses they offer and a
database for the faculty and students. Each student records contains the name of the student,
marks scored etc. Each faculty record contains the name of the faculty, his employee id,
salary, subjects dealing with etc.
4) Internet Interactions: Internet applications are mainly database driven. Suppose you want
to send an e-card to your friend. You first interact with the database based on purpose of the
e- card. If you want to send a birthday card, you select from categories and retrieve various
cards from the database.
Online shopping is another example. You select an item from the database and then send your
credit card number with some additional information to buy the product.
5) Computer Horoscope: We enter our name, date birth, our likes and dislikes in a form
presented to us. All these details are compared against a database to search for a perfect
match and our future is predicted.
6) Data base in a library: This database stores details of the books available. The user
access this database to find a book quickly. The database allows easy management by
allowing a user to reserve a book and intimate him through a mail when the book is available.
The system also sends a remainder to customers who did not return the book by due-date
7) Shopping of Supermarket: The cashier places the bar code of a product against a bar
code reader. The application program uses the bar code to identify the price and reduce the
number of items on the database.
8) Telecommunications
: Database is used to store the details of number of calls made to generate the bill. For prepaid
customers, it stores the available credit.
Data Administrator and Database Administrator:
DA (Data Administrator) and DBA (Database Administrator) both are responsible for
managing database for an organization. They differ from each other in their required skills
and responsibilities.
Data Administrator (DA) :
"Person in the organization who controls the data of the database refers data administrator.
• DA determines what data to be stored in database based on requirement of the
organization. DA works on such as requirements gathering, analysis, and design phases.
• DA does not to be a technical person, any kind of knowledge about database
technology can be more beneficiary
• DA is some senior level person in the organization. in short, DA is a business focused
person but should understand about the database technology.
Database Administrator (DBA) :
"Person in the organization who controls the design and the use of the database refers
database administrator."
• DBA provides necessary technical support for implementing a database. DBA works
on such as design, development , testing, and operational phases.
• DBA is a technical person having knowledge of database technology.
• DBA does not need to be a business person. in short, DBA is a technically focused
person but should understand about the business to administrator the database effectively.

ACTORS ON THE SCENE:

In large organizations many people are involves in the design, use and maintenance of a large
database.
 People who are involved in the design and use of database are called actors on the
scene.
 People who work to maintain database environment are called workers behind the
scene.
 Both actors on the scene and workers behind the scene are collectively called DBMS
users.
Database administrator:
DATABASE USERS AND ADMINISTRATOR:
A Primary goal of a database system is to retrieve information from and store new
information in the database. People who work with a database can be categorized as database
users or database administrators.
Database Users: The users of a database system can be classified into following groups,
depending on their degree of expertise or the mode of their interactions with the DBMS. The
users can be,
1. Naïve Users. 2. Online Users. 3. Application programmers.
4. Sophisticated users. 5. Specialized users.
Naïve Users: Naïve users are those users who need not be aware of the presence of the
database system or any other system supporting their usage. A user of an automatic teller
machine falls in this category. The user is instructed through each step of a transaction. He or
she then responds by pressing a coded key or entering a numeric value.
The operations that can be performed by naïve users are very limited and affect only a precise
portion of the database. For example, in the case of the user of the automatic teller machines,
user’s action affects only one or more of his own accounts.
Online Users: Online users are those who may communicate with the database directly via
an online terminal or indirectly via a user interface and application program. These users are
aware of the presence of the database system and may have acquired a certain amount of
expertise within the limited interaction they are permitted with a database.
Application Programmers: Professional programmers or application programmers are those
who are responsible for developing application programs or user interface. The application
programs could be written in a general purpose programming language or the commands
available to manipulate a database.
Sophisticate Users: Sophisticated users interact with the system without writing programs.
Instead, they form their requests in a database query language. They submit each such query
to a query processor, whose function is to break down DML statements into instructions that
the storage manager understands. Analysis who submit queries to explore data in the database
fall in this category.
Specialized Users: Specialized users are sophisticated users who write specialized databases
applications that do not fit into the traditional data processing framework. Among these
applications are computer-added design systems, knowledge-based and expert system,
systems that store data with complex data types and environment modeling system.

Database Administrator: The people who have central control of both data and the
programs that access those data in the database is called the Database Administrator (DBA).
Functions of the DBA are,
1. Schema Definition: The DBA creates the original database schema by writing a set
of definitions that are translated by a special language called a Data Definition Language
(DDL). The result of compilation of DDL statements is a set of tables of databases that is
stored permanently in a special file called data dictionary or dta directory which contains
metadata that is, data bout data.
2. Storage Structure and Access Methods: The DBA create storage structure and
access methods by writing a set of definitions, which are translated by the data definition
language compiler.
3. Schema and Physical Organization Modification: The DBA carries out changes to
the schema and physical organization to reflect the changing needs of the organization, or to
alter the physical organization to improve performance.
4. Granting of Authorization for Data Access: The DBA can grants permissions for
accessing different parts of the database to various users.
5. Integrity-constraint Specification: The data values stored in the database must
satisfy a consistent constraint (condition) specified only by DBA, known as integrity
constraint. So that, the data values stored in the database must be according to integrity
constraints.
6. Routine Maintenance:
i) DBA periodically updates the database, to prevent loss of data in case of disasters.
ii) DBA ensures that there is enough free space available for doing normal operations.
iii) DBA monitors all the jobs running on the database and ensures that performance is
not degraded by very expensive tasks submitted by some users.

VIEW OF DATA:
Database is a collection of large volumes of data. A user will not always require the complete
data. The responsibility of the database system is to provide only the data that is required to
the user.
Similarly, a programmer who wishes to enhance the features of database system is not
concerned about the data, but need to know how the data is stored. Hence different users need
different view of data.

THREE SCHEMA ARCHITECTURE

 The three schema architecture is also called ANSI/SPARC architecture or three-level
architecture.
 This framework is used to describe the structure of a specific database system.
 The three schema architecture is also used to separate the user applications and
physical database.
 The three schema architecture contains three-levels. It breaks the database down into
three different categories.

The three-schema architecture is as follows:

In the above diagram:

 It shows the DBMS architecture.
 Mapping is used to transform the request and response between various database levels of
architecture.
 Mapping is not good for small DBMS because it takes more time.
 In External / Conceptual mapping, it is necessary to transform the request from external level to
conceptual schema.
 In Conceptual / Internal mapping, DBMS transform the request from the conceptual to internal
level.
1. Internal Level
 The internal level has an internal schema which describes the physical storage
structure of the database.
 The internal schema is also known as a physical schema.
 It uses the physical data model. It is used to define that how the data will be stored in
a block.
 The physical level is used to describe complex low-level data structures in detail.
2. Conceptual Level
 The conceptual schema describes the design of a database at the conceptual level.
Conceptual level is also known as logical level.
 The conceptual schema describes the structure of the whole database.
 The conceptual level describes what data are to be stored in the database and also
describes what relationship exists among those data.
 In the conceptual level, internal details such as an implementation of the data structure
are hidden.
 Programmers and database administrators work at this level.
3. External Level
 At the external level, a database contains several schemas that sometimes called as
subschema. The subschema is used to describe the different view of the database.
 An external schema is also known as view schema.
 Each view schema describes the database part that a particular user group is interested
and hides the remaining database from that user group.
 The view schema describes the end user interaction with database systems.
LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION IN A DBMS:
In DBMS, the data can be abstracted in three levels. The goal of the three level abstraction in
a DBMS is to separate the user’s request and the physical storage of data in database. The
data abstracted at each of these levels is described by a “Schema”. A schema is a systematic
plan for attaining some goal. For example, the storage of data in a database is the concept of
data storage. This concept is called schema.
1. Physical level: The design of a database at physical level is called physical schema.
Features:
a) Lowest level of abstraction.
b) It describes how data are actually stored.
c) It describes low-level complex data structures in detail.
d) At this level, efficient algorithms to access data are defined.

2. Logical level: Design of database at logical level is called logical schema

It describes what data stored in database, and the relationships among the data
Features:
a) It is next-higher level of abstraction. Here whole Database is divided into small
simple structures.
b) Users at this level need not be aware of the physical-level complexity used to
implement the simple structures.
c) Here the aim is ease of use.
d) Generally, database administrators (DBAs) work at logical level of abstraction.

3. View level: Design of database at view level is called view schema. This generally
describes end user interaction with database systems
Application programs hide details of data types. Views can also hide information (e.g.,
salary) for security purposes.
Features:
a) It is the highest level of abstraction.
b) It describes only a part of the whole Database for particular group of users.
c) This view hides all complexity.
d) It exists only to simplify user interaction with system.
e) The system may provide many views for the whole system.

Instances and Schemas: Databases change from time to time as information is inserted and
deleted. The view of collection information stored in the database at that particular moment is
called an “instance” of the database.
Design of a database is called the schema or The overall design (plan) of the database to
store the information is called as database “Schema”.
For example, declaration of variable is a plan to store the data is known as “Schema”.
Assign the value into a variable is nothing but “instance”.

DATA MODELS:
 Data model means to model the data i.e., to give a shape to the data and to give a
figure to the stored data. A data model makes it easier to understand the meaning of
the data by its figure.
 The data model can be used to convey the designers understanding of the information
requirement of the organization. Increasingly, organizations are standardizing the way
that they model data by selecting a particular approach to data modeling and using it
throughout their database development projects.
A data model has a collection of tools for describing Data, Data relationships, Data
semantics, and Data constraints.
 The data models are divided into three different groups.
1. Object-based logical models.
2. Record based logical models.
3. Physical data model.

Object-Based Logical Models:

Object-based logical models are used in describing data at logical level and view level.
Logical level and view level are used to retrieve the data. Logical level describes what data
are stored in the database and what relationships exist among those data. Logical level is used
by DBA, who must decide what information is to be kept in the database. View level
describes only part of the entire database to be viewed by the user of the database hiding the
details of ht information stored.
Object-based logical models are described in the different following models.
1) The Entity-relationship model.
2) The object-oriented logical model
3) The semantic data model.
4) The functional data model,

Entity-relationship model: An entity is a “thing” or “object” in the real world that is

distinguishable from other objects. The Entity-Relationship model is based on a collection of
basic objects called entities and the relationship among these objects. Consider the E-R
diagram as shown in fig.

i) Rectangle represents entities.

ii) Diamonds represent relationship among entities.
iii) Ellipse represents attributes.
iv) Lines represents link of attributes to entities and entities to relationship.
Here customer and account are two different entities such “things” or “objects” and there is
one relationship between these two entities i.e. depositor. It means customer deposits the
account. When customer deposits account, the customer should specify the customer_name,
customer_number customer_city known as attributes. Likewise, account should specify the
attributes account_number and balance.
The Object-oriented Model: Like the ER model, the object-oriented model is based on a
collection of objects. An object contains values stored in instance variables, within the object
also contains bodies of code that operates on the objects. These bodies of code are called as
methods.
Objects that contain the same types of values and the same methods are grouped together into
classes. A class may be viewed as a definition for objects. This combination data and
methods comprising a definition is similar to a programming language abstract data type.
The only way in which one object can access the data of another object is by invoking a
method of that other object. This action is called sending a message to the object.
The semantic Data Model: A semantic data model is a more high level data model that
makes it easier for a user to give starting description of data in an enterprise. These models
contain a wide starting description of data in an enterprise. These models contain a wide
variety of relations that helps to describe a real application scenario. A DBMS cannot support
all these relations directly, so it is built only with few relations known as relational model in
DBMS. A widely used semantic data model is the Entity-Relationship (ER) data model which
allows us to graphically denote entities and relationship between them.
The Functional Data Model: In conventional database systems, procedures, data structures
and actual content are usually separated. Thus, a conventional Database Management systems
(DBMS) provides users with a possibility to store, modify or retrieve data that structured in
accordance with a current databases schema.

Record-Based Logical Models:

Record-Based logical models describes data at logical and view levels. When compared with
object- based data models, the record-based logical model specifies the overall logical
structure of the database and provides higher-level implementation.
Record-Based models are so named because the data is kept in the form of records of several
types. Each record has fixed number of attributes and each field is of fixed length. The
record-based models are of three types. They are,
1. Relational model 2. Network model. 3. Hierarchical model.

Relational model: The relational model represents both data and relationship among data in
the form of tables. Each table has multiple columns and each column has a unique name.
Consider the following relational model.
The description of data in terms of tables are called as relations. From the above customer
and account relations, we can make a condition that customer details are maintained in
customer relation database and their deposit details are maintained in account relation
database.

Network Model: Data in the network model are represented by collection of records and
relationships among data are connected by links. The links can be viewed as pointers. The
records in the database are represented in the form of graphs.

Hierarchical Model: Hierarchical model is same as the network model i.e. data in the
hierarchical model are also represented by collection of records and relationships among data
are connected by links. The links can be viewed as pointers. But, the difference from network
model is that the records in the database are represented in the form of tr

The relational model differs from the network and hierarchical models. It means, the
relational model does not use pointers or links.
Physical Data Models:
Physical data models are used to describe data at the lowest level, which explains how the
data is actually stored using complex low-level data structures. Actually the physical data
models are rarely used.
Two types of physical data models are,
1. Unifying model. 2. Frame-memory model.
DATA INDEPENDENCE:
The ability to modify a scheme definition in one level without affecting a scheme definition
in a higher level is called data independence. 1. There are two kinds:
Logical data independence
 The ability to modify the conceptual scheme without causing application programs to
be rewritten.
 Immunity of external schemas to changes in the conceptual schema.
 Usually done when logical structure of database is altered
Physical data independence
 The ability to modify the internal scheme without having to change the conceptual or
external schemas.
 Modifications at this level are usually to improve performance.
DATABASE SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT :
DBMS System Structure and its Components:
We can explain the overall structure of DBMS/System structure and its components by the
diagram

Here we have diagrammatic representation of database system environment.

 The figure is divvied into two levels. The top half of the figure refers to the various
users of the database environment and their interfaces.
 The lower half shows the storage of data and system catalogs.
 The database and the dbms catalogs are stored on disk.
 Access to the disk is controlled by the operating system (OS).
 Stored data managers controls access to DBMS information stored on disk.
Consider the top half of the figures:
  It shows the interfaces from the DBA staff, casual users programmers who write
programs using host languages.
 DBA staff workers on defining the database and making changes to it by using DDl
and other privileged commands.
 Casual users work with interactive quires when they need information from database.
 These queries are analyzed by the query compiler and these compiled queries are
given to the query optimizer, which rearrange the operations, eliminate redundancies.
 Application programmers write programs in host language such as C, JAVA and
COBOL. These programs are submitted to precompile.
 The pre compiler get DML commands from an application programs and these
commands are sent to the DML compiler for compilation.
 The remaining programs are sent to the host language compiler.
 In the lower half of figure, the runtime database processor is shown to execute.
 Privileged commands ii) executable queries
 It works with data dictionary.
 It works with stored managers for carrying I/O operations between disk and main
memory.

CENTRALIZED AND CLIENT/SERVER ARCHITECTURES FOR DBMS

Centralized DBMSs Architecture
. Earlier architectures used mainframe computers to provide the main processing for all
system functions, including user application programs and user interface programs, as well as
all the DBMS functionality.
 all processing was performed remotely on the computer system, and only display
information and controls were sent from the computer to the display terminals, which
were connected to the central computer via various types of communications networks.
 DBMS itself was still a centralized DBMS in which all the DBMS functionality,
application program execution, and user inter-face processing were carried out on one
machine
Definition
 Client-server architecture is a computing model in which the server hosts, delivers
and manages most of the resources and services to be consumed by the client.
 This type of architecture has one or more client computers connected to a central
server over a network or internet connection.
 Client-server architecture is also known as a networking computing model or client-
server network because all the requests and services are delivered over a network.
Vocabulary for components and connectors:
 Client: a piece of software or application that takes the input and sends request to the
servers.
 Server: a piece of software that receives and processes requests from clients.
 Load balancer: responsible for distributing incoming network traffic across a group of
backend servers to optimize resource usage
 Network layer protocols such as TCP/IP
Topological constraints

The flow of the data is unidirectional and forms a cycle. It is usually initiated by the client
requesting some kind of data and the server processing the request and sending some kind of
data back to the client via a protocol. Clients cannot directly talk to each other.

A typical topological data flow goes as follows:

1. Client requests data from serverLoad balancer routes the request to the appropriate server
2. Server processes the request client
3. Server queries appropriate database for some data
4. Database returns the queried data back to the server
5. The server processes the data and sends the data back to the client
6. This process repeats

The client/server architecture was developed to deal with computing environments in which a
large
number of PCs, workstations, file servers, printers, database servers, Web servers, e-mail
servers, and other software and equipment are connected via a network

• Two main types of dbms architectures were

i) Two-tier ii) three-tire

Two-Tier Client/Server Architectures for DBMS:

In this architecture the application programs were moved to the client side, query and
transaction functionally remained on the server side.
 In this architecture the server is often called a query server or transaction server.
 The user interface programs and application programs can run on the client side.
 When DBMS access is required, the program establishes a connection to the DBMS
(which is on the server side); once the connection is created, the client program can
communicate with the DBMS.
  A Standard called open database Connectivity . allows client side programs to call the
dbms.

Fig: 2-tier Architecture

3-Tier Architecture
The 3-Tier architecture contains another layer between the client and server. In this
architecture, client can't directly communicate with the server.
The application on the client-end interacts with an application server which further
communicates with the database system.
End user has no idea about the existence of the database beyond the application server. The
database also has no idea about any other user beyond the application.
The 3-Tier architecture is used in case of large web application.

Fig: 3-tier Architecture