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The Characteristics of Databases

The document provides an overview of key concepts related to databases including: 1) The purpose of databases is to track information through the use of tables, rows, columns, and relationships between data. 2) Database management systems allow users to create, manage, and process databases through the use of structured query language. 3) Popular database management systems include Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL. 4) Databases are collections of integrated and self-describing tables that store data and metadata about relationships between data.

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The Characteristics of Databases

The document provides an overview of key concepts related to databases including: 1) The purpose of databases is to track information through the use of tables, rows, columns, and relationships between data. 2) Database management systems allow users to create, manage, and process databases through the use of structured query language. 3) Popular database management systems include Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL. 4) Databases are collections of integrated and self-describing tables that store data and metadata about relationships between data.

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The Characteristics of Databases

• The purpose of a database: to help track things


• Conventions: STUDENT(StuNum, FirstName,
LastName, Phone, Address)
• Content:
– Tables
– Rows: each row in a table stores data about an
occurrence or instance of the thing of interest
– Columns
– Data: each table stores data about a different thing
– A database stores relationships as well
• A database can be used to produce information
Database Examples
1

4
MS Access in Detail
Enterprise-Class Database Systems

Compare: Database, DBMS, Database System


Components of a Database System
• Applications are the computer programs
that users work with
• Database Management System (DBMS)
creates, processes and manages dbs
• Structured Query Language (SQL): an
standard database language used by all
commercial DBMSs
Prominent DBMS Products
• MS Access
• MS SQL Server
– New: MS SQL Server Express
• IBM DB2
• Oracle
• MySQL
• DBMS by power, features and easy of use
– Figure 1-8 (page 11)
Database Definition/Contents
• Database: a self-describing collection of integrated tables
• The integrated tables because they store data about the
relationships between the rows of data
• Self-describing because it stores a description of itself –
metadata (data about data)
Three Types of Database Design
Data Import: One or Two Tables?
This is an important
decision, and based
on a set of rules
known as
normalization (which
is covered in Chapter
Three)
What You Need to Learn
E-R Diagram
(Ch 5)
Relationships between Chapters

Using
DB Model Normalization
Normalization
(Ch 6) (Ch 3)
(Ch 4)

DB Implementation
(Ch 7)

SQL
(Ch 2)
DB MGMT/App
(Ch 11/13)
The History of Database Processing
The Relational Database Model
• The dominant database model is the
relational database model
• Created by IBM engineer E. F. Codd in
1970
• It was based on mathematics called
relational algebra
• This text examines and explains the
relational database model
Database Design Process for New
Systems Development

Entity-Relationship data modeling is covered in Chapter Five, and data model


transformations to database designs are covered in Chapter Six
A Brief
History of
Database
Processing
(Page 19)
Practice: Create Database in
Access
• Create two tables
• Create the relationship
• Add values to the tables
• Create a form
• Create a report

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