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DBMS Concepts

The document discusses databases and database management systems. It defines a database as a collection of data describing organizations and entities such as students, faculty, and courses. It also discusses relationships between entities. A database management system (DBMS) is software that helps maintain and use large data collections. The document also discusses data modeling, schemas, and the entity-relationship model for conceptual database design.

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DBMS Concepts

The document discusses databases and database management systems. It defines a database as a collection of data describing organizations and entities such as students, faculty, and courses. It also discusses relationships between entities. A database management system (DBMS) is software that helps maintain and use large data collections. The document also discusses data modeling, schemas, and the entity-relationship model for conceptual database design.

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A database is a collection of data, typically describing the activities of one or more related

organizations.

Entities such as students, faculty, courses, and classrooms.

Relationships between entities, such as students' enrollment in courses, faculty teaching courses, and
the use of rooms for courses.

A database management system, or DBMS, is software designed to assist in maintaining and utilizing
large collections of data.

Data Analysis: How can a user answer questions about the enterprise by posing queries over the data
in the DBMS?

A data model is a collection of high-level data description constructs that hide many low-level storage
details.

A widely used semantic data model called the entity-relationship (ER) model allows us to pictorially
denote entities and the relationships among them.

A description of data in terms of a data model is called a schema.

The conceptual schema (sometimes called the logical schema) describes the stored data in terms of the data
model of the DBMS.

The physical schema specifies additional storage details.

The Entity Relationships (ER) data 'model allows us to describe the data involved in a real-world enterprise
in terms of objects and their relationships and is widely used to (levelop an initial databa.'3e design.

The database design process can be divided into six steps. The ER model is most relevant to the first three
steps.

1. Requirements Analysis
2. Conceptual Database Design
3. Logical Database Design
4. Schema Refinement
5. Physical Database Design
6. Application and Security Design

unified modeling language (UML) approach


1. Business Modeling:
2. System Modeling:
3. Conceptual Database Modeling:
4. Physical Database Modeling:
5. Hardware System Modeling:

Activity diagrams 8hmv the flow of actions in a business process. Statechart


diagrams describe dynamic interactions between system objects.
Class diagrams are similar to ER diagrams, although they are more general
in that they are intended to model application entities (intuitively, important
program components) and their logical relationships in addition to data entities
and their relationships.
These pieces of information are called data.

A database is an organized collection of information.

To manage databases, you need database management systems (DBMS). A DBMS is a program that
stores, retrieves, and modifies data in the database on request.

A relational database is a collection of relations or two-


dimensional tables.

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