Data Base Concepts2
Data Base Concepts2
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Database Concepts
Contents
DBMS Concepts
Disadvantages of Conventional File Processing System
Main Characteristics of the Database Approach
Data models
Three-schema architecture
Data Independence
Database Languages
Database Users
References
DBMS Concepts
Data: Known facts that can be recorded and have an implicit meaning.
Database: Collection of related data & contains information about one particular
enterprise.
A DB has some source from which data are derived, degree of interaction with
events in the real world and users that are actively interested in the contents of
DB.
Example: Oracle, DB2.
DBMS: Consists of a collection of interrelated data & a set of programs to access
those data.
The management of data involves both the definition of structures for the storage
of info. & mechanism for manipulation of info.
DBMS Concepts
GOAL OF A DBMS:
◦ Defining
◦ Constructing
◦ Manipulating
◦ Sharing
Prior to DBMS systems, the data was kept under the file system in forms of
Disadvantages of Conventional
File Processing System
Data Abstraction