Database
A collection of related data.
Database Management System (DBMS)
The software that manages & controls access to the database
Database application
A program that interacts with the database at some point in its execution
Database system
a collection of application programs that interacts with the database along with the DBMS and database itself
Traditional File-based System definition
Collection of application programs that perform services for the end users (e.g.: reports). Each program defines and manages its own data.
Limitations of File-based approach
Separation and isolation of data, duplication of data, data dependence, incompatible file formats, fixed queries/ proliferation of application program
•Data definition language (DDL).
Permits specification of data types, structures and any data constraint,
All specifications are stored in the database
•Data manipulation language (DML).
•General enquiry facility (query language) of the data.
•Using Structured Query Language (SQL) to produce required information
Machine components
hardware and software
Human components
procedures, people
Data Administrator (DA)
•responsible for the management of the data resource
•Database planning
•Development and maintenance of standards, policies, procedures
•Conceptual/logical database design
•Database Administrator (DBA)
•responsible for the physical realization of the database
•Physical database design and implementation
•Security & integrity control
•Maintenance of operational control
•Ensuring satisfactory performance of applications for users
•Database Designers (Logical and Physical)
•Logical : is concerned with identifying the data, the relationships between the data, & the constraint on the data that is to be stored in the database
Physical : decides how the logical database design is to be physically realized
Advantages of Database Approach :
•Control of data redundancy
•Data consistency
•More information from the same amount of data
•Sharing of data
•Improved data integrity & security
•Improved data accessibility and responsiveness
•Increased productivity
•Improved maintenance through data independence
•Increased concurrency
•Improved backup and recovery services
Disadvantage of Database Approach
•Complexity
•Size
•Cost of DBMSs
•Additional hardware costs
•Cost of conversion
•Performance
Greater impact of a failure
External level
users view of the database, describrs that part of the database that is relevant to a particular user.
Conceptual level
Community view of the database, community view of the database, describes when data is stored in database and relationship among the data
internal level
physical representation of the database on the computer, described how the data is stored in the database
Data independence
Referring to mapping between external, conceptual and internal levels
Logical data independence
the immunity of external schemas to changes in conceptual schema
physical data independence
the immunity of conceptual schema to changes in the internal schema