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Database management

system
Presented by. Lecturer: Mahpara Tunio Week 2
Three schema Architecture

• 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.
Three schema architecture
Three schema architecture
• 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.
Three schema architecture
• 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.
Three schema architecture
• 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.
Three schema architecture
• 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.

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