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Database Systems: Ms. Anum Hameed

This document discusses the different types of users that interact with database systems. It identifies several categories of database users including: database administrators, database designers, end users (casual, naive/parametric, and sophisticated), system analysts and application programmers, tool developers, and operators and maintenance personnel. It provides details on the roles and responsibilities of each type of user.

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Database Systems: Ms. Anum Hameed

This document discusses the different types of users that interact with database systems. It identifies several categories of database users including: database administrators, database designers, end users (casual, naive/parametric, and sophisticated), system analysts and application programmers, tool developers, and operators and maintenance personnel. It provides details on the roles and responsibilities of each type of user.

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DATABASE

SYSTEMS

LECTURE 3
Ms. Anum Hameed

Database Systems
Previous Lecture

 Database Management System


 Explain advantages of databases
 Identify costs and risks of databases
 List components of database environment
 Identify five categories of databases
 Describe evolution of database systems

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Lecture Outline

 Database Users
 Database Administrators
 Database Designers
 End Users
 System Analysts and Application Programmers
 Workers behind the Scene
 Tool developers
 Operators and maintenance personnel

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Database Users

■ Database Administrators
– In a database environment, the primary resource is the database itself and the
secondary resource is the DBMS and related software
– authorizing access to the database
– coordinating and monitoring its use
– acquiring software and hardware resources as needed
■ Database Designers
– identifying the data to be stored in the database
– choosing appropriate structures to represent and store this data undertaken before
the database is actually implemented and populated with data
Database Users
– communicate with all prospective database users, in order to understand
their requirements
– develop a view of the database that meets the data and processing
requirements for each group of users
– These views are then analyzed and integrated with the views of other user
groups. The final database design must be capable of supporting the
requirements of all user groups
■ End Users
– access to the database for querying, updating, and generating reports
– Casual end users:
– occasionally access the database
– need different information each time
– learn only a few facilities that they may use repeatedly.
Database Users
– use a sophisticated database query language to specify their requests
– typically middle- or high-level managers or other occasional browsers

■ Naive or parametric end users


– constantly querying and updating the database, using standard types of queries
and updates called canned transactions that have been carefully programmed
and tested
– need to learn very little about the facilities provided by the DBMS
– Bank tellers check account balances and post withdrawals and deposits
– Reservation clerks for airlines, hotels, and car rental companies check
availability for a given request and make reservations
– Clerks at receiving stations for courier mail enter package identifications via bar
codes and descriptive information through buttons to update a central database
of received and in-transit packages
Database Users
■ Sophisticated end users
– Engineers, scientists, business analysts, and others who thoroughly familiarize themselves
with the facilities of the DBMS so as to implement their applications to meet their complex
requirements
– Try to learn most of the DBMS facilities in order to achieve their complex requirements

■ Stand-alone users
– Maintain personal databases by using ready-made program packages that provide easy-to-
use menu- or graphics-based interfaces. An example is the user of a tax package that stores a
variety of personal financial data for tax purposes
– Typically become very proficient in using a specific software package
Database Users
■ System Analysts and Application Programmers
– Determine the requirements of end users, especially naive and
parametric end users, and develop specifications for canned
transactions that meet these requirements
– Application programmers implement these specifications as programs;
then they test, debug, document, and maintain these canned transactions
■ Workers behind the Scene
– Typically do not use the database for their own purposes
– DBMS system designers and implementers
– design and implement the DBMS modules (for implementing the
catalog, query language, interface processors, data access, concurrency
control, recovery, and security. ) and interfaces as a software package
Database Users
■ Tool developers
– Tools are optional packages that are often purchased separately
– include packages for database design, performance monitoring, natural language
or graphical interfaces, prototyping, simulation, and test data generation.
■ Operators and maintenance personnel
– system administration personnel who are responsible for the actual running and
maintenance of the hardware and software environment for the database system
References:
■ Modern Database Management by Fred McFadden, Jeffrey Hoofer, Mary Prescott,
Prentice Hall; 11th Edition (July 26, 2012). ISBN-10: 0132662256.

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