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Title: Database system
Description: .The difference between data and information •What a databaseis, the various types of databases, and why they are valuable assets for decision making •The importance of database design •How modern databases evolved from file systems •About flaws in file system data management •The main components of the database system •The main functions of a database management system

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12/9/2017

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Database Systems
Design, Implementation, and Management

Coronel | Morris

Chapter 1
Database Systems
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Information
Data

Information

• Raw facts

 Produced by processing data

• Raw data - Not yet been
processed to reveal the
meaning
• Building blocks of information
• Data management

 Reveals the meaning of data
 Enables knowledge creation
 Should be accurate, relevant, and
timely to enable good decision
making

• Generation, storage, and
retrieval of data

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Introducing the Database (cont…)
Role of the DBMS
• Intermediary between the user and the database
• Enables data to be shared
• Presents the end user with an integrated view of the
data
• Receives and translates application requests into
operations required to fulfil the requests
• Hides database’s internal complexity from the
application programs and users
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Introducing the Database (cont…)
Role of the DBMS

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g: CompuStat, GIS, medical

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Types of Databases (cont…)

Data
usage

• Operational database: Designed to
support a company’s day-to-day
operations
• Analytical database: Stores historical data
and business metrics used exclusively for
tactical or strategic decision making
• Data warehouse: Stores data in a
format optimized for decision support
• Online analytical processing (OLAP) :
Enable retrieving, processing, and
modeling data from the data warehouse

Business
intelligence :
Captures and
processes business
data to generate
information that
support decision
making
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Types of Databases (cont…)

Structured
data
degree

• Unstructured data: It exists in
their original state
• Structured data: It results from
formatting
• Structure is applied based on type of
processing to be performed

Extensible Markup
Language (XML)
Represents data
elements in textual
format

• Semi-structured data: Processed
to some extent

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Types of Databases (cont…)
• Social media – web and mobile technologies that
enable “anywhere, anytime, always on” human
interaction
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Evolution of File System Data Processing (cont…)
Computerized File Systems

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• Update anomalies- eg: Update Leah HP no
• Insertion anomalies - how to add new agent without customer?
• Deletion anomalies - eg: to delete customer, also delete agent
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8 - Contrasting Database and File Systems
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Database Systems (cont…)
The database system is composed of five major parts : hardware,
software, people, procedures and data

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3 - Database Career Opportunities
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Title: Database system
Description: .The difference between data and information •What a databaseis, the various types of databases, and why they are valuable assets for decision making •The importance of database design •How modern databases evolved from file systems •About flaws in file system data management •The main components of the database system •The main functions of a database management system