DFC20123

Database Design

Topic 1: Fundamentals Of Database

Management System
1.3 Understand Data Model

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1.0 Fundamentals of Database
Management System

1.1 Understand Database CLO 1

1.2 Understand DBMS Apply fundamentals of DBMS, relational data
model and normalization concepts in database
1.3 Understand Data Model
development process.
Three schema architecture
Client-server architecture
Categories of DBMS
Benefits of desktop database & server solution
Users of DBMS

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“ THREE SCHEMA
ARCHITECTURE
Three-schema architecture is an idea in
relational database design that breaks a
database down into three different levels
according to its use and structure.

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Three schema architecture
•is the end users’ view of the data environment
EXTERNAL /
VIEW LEVEL •end users usually operate in an environment in which
an application has a specific business unit focus.

•represents a global view of the entire database as

viewed by the entire organization
CONCEPTUAL /
LOGICAL LEVEL • integrates all external views (entities, relationships,
constraints, and processes) into a single global view
of the entire data in the enterprise.

•describing the way data are saved on storage media

INTERNAL / •representation of the database as “seen” by the
PHYSICAL LEVEL DBMS.

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Client-server architecture

Entire files are transferred from the server

to the client for processing.

This type of architecture has one or

more client computers connected to a
central server over a network.

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Categories of DBMS
Desktop Databases Server Databases

Microsoft Access Oracle

Fox Pro Microsoft SQL Server

FileMaker Pro IBM

Paradox DB2

Lotus

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Benefits of using desktop
database & server solution
Desktop Database: single-user database supports
only one user at a time.
•Easy management – provide web solutions so
that the user can publish data onto the web in
various fashions.
•Inexpensive – desktop applications are purchased
one time and there are not continually occurring
charges.
•Easy to use – no knowledge is necessarily
needed to be able to manage such databases
since the programs themselves are normally very
intuitive and easy to learn.
Server Database: used by the entire organization
and supports many users
•Scalability – able to gracefully handle a rapidly
expanding amount of users and/or data
•Flexibility – can handle just about any data
management problem and available for multiple
operating systems.
•Powerful performance – can manage multiple
high-speed processors and high bandwidth
connectivity
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Users of DBMS
End User

Application
Programmer

Database
Administrator

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THANKS!
Any questions?

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