DATABASE
Database is a collection of interrelated data items that canbeprocessed by one or more application.
Ex:- A bank, A manufacturing company, A hospital, etc.
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
A database management system is defined as “a software that defines a database, stores the data, supports query language, produces reports, & create data entry screens.”
TERMINOLOGIES
1 Entity:- An object, person or an event about which data is stored is called as entity. For example If we are concerned with personal data of students and there mark-sheet, ‘student’ and ‘mark-sheet’ are entities.
2 Attribute:- The characteristics of an entities is called an attribute.
For Ex: Student Name , Address, city and phone number are different attributes of an entity ‘student’.
OBJECTIVES OF DATABASE
I Centrally controlled
1) Data can be stored, processed, modified or accessed in an organised way.
2) Non redundancy & consistency.
3) Security & privacy from unauthorized access.
II Logically organised:
Database is organized in logical manner.
III Integrated database:
The same collection of data is available for as many application as possible.
IV Shared
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