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Inside the DBMS: Components and How a Query Flows
A DBMS is built from a query processor, a storage manager, a transaction manager and a recovery manager. Following one query through all of them is th...
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Centralised and Distributed Databases
A centralised database keeps all data at one site; a distributed database spreads it across several. The choice changes availability, performance, com...
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Client Server Architecture and Database Servers
In client server architecture the database server owns the data and answers requests, while clients ask questions. Understanding what the server keeps...
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One Tier, Two Tier and Three Tier Architecture
Tier architecture describes how many machines or layers a database request passes through. One tier is local, two tier puts the application on the cli...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...