Data Management Approaches

The FlatFile Approach

describes an environment in which individual data files are not
related to other files.
Disadvantages
Data Storage
Data Updating
Currency of nformation
Task Data Dependency (limited access
The Database Approach
- this approach centralizes the organization's data into a
common database that is shared by other users.
entraIized Database Systems
Primary Elements:
Users
DBMS
- it provides a controlled environment to assist user access to the database
and to efficiently manage the data resource.
eatures:
Program DeveIopment
Back up and recovery
Database usage reporting
Database access
Database Administrator
- is responsible Ior managing the database resource.
Physical Database
- This is the lowest level of database and the only level that exist in physical form.
Data Definition Language
- a programming language used to define the database to the DBMS. t
identifies the names and the relationship of all data elements, records, and
files that constitute the database.
3 levels of DDL
nternal View
Conceptual View ( Schema)
User View ( Subschema)
Data ManipuIation Language
- A programming language that a particular DBMS uses to retrieve, process, and
store data.
Data Model is an abstract representation of the data about
entities, including resources (assets), events
(transaction), and agents and their relationship in an
organization.
3 DBMS Model
1. Hierarchical model it is constructed of sets that
describes the relationship between two linked files.
2. Network Model is a navigational database with
explicit linkages between records and files.
3. Relational Model -
DBMS Model