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Data, Information and Databases
Data is raw recorded fact, information is data placed in context, and a database is an organised, shared, self describing collection of related data...
DBMS Fundamentals
Data, databases, what a DBMS is, file systems compared, database users, architecture, data abstraction and data independence.
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What a DBMS Is and Why It Exists
A DBMS is the software layer between users and stored data. It exists to give many users controlled, concurrent, recoverable and consistent access to...
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File System versus DBMS
The file based approach fails on redundancy, inconsistency, isolation, atomicity, concurrency, security and integrity. Each failure maps to one specif...
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Advantages and Limitations of a DBMS
A DBMS buys controlled redundancy, enforced integrity, sharing, security, recovery and independence. It charges for them in cost, complexity, hardware...
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Database Users and the Role of the DBA
A database system serves naive users, application programmers, sophisticated users and specialised users, and is run by a database administrator whose...
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Three Level Architecture and Data Abstraction
The ANSI-SPARC architecture separates a database into external, conceptual and internal levels. That separation is what makes data abstraction and dat...
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Logical and Physical Data Independence
Data independence is the ability to change a schema at one level without changing the level above. Physical independence is easy to achieve; logical i...
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Schema, Instance and Metadata
A schema is the design of a database and rarely changes. An instance is the data in it at one moment and changes constantly. Metadata is the stored de...
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Database Applications and the Database System Environment
Where databases are actually used, and what sits inside a running database system: the DBMS software, the stored database, the catalog, the applicatio...