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Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Introduction to DBMS
1.1 INTRODUCTION
DataBase Management System has evolved from a specialized computer application to a
central component of computing environment. Database system plays a vital role in
organizing data about a particular enterprise. Consider an example of a company which
stores data about following:
Employees (Employee No., Name, Address, Salary).
Departments (Department No., Name, Location)
Project (Name, Project No., Department No., Location)
Which may have following relations :
An Employee works in a Departments.
An Employee works on many Projects.
A Department handles many Project.
Therefore, a system is needed which can effectively organize the data and also use it to
analyze and guide operations of the company.
Now–a–days, the amount of information to be stored is increasing tremendously and thus
the need of flexible and powerful system is also increasing day–by–day which has the
ability not only to effectively organize or maintain large collection of data but also
provides easy access to data.
Figure 1.1 One to one correspondences between applications and data files
Customer_Loan
Cust_ID : 101 Conceptual
Loan_No : 1011
Amount_in_Dollars : 8755.00
CREATE TABLE Customer_Loan (
Cust_ID NUMBER(4) Internal
Loan_No NUMBER(4)
Amount_in_Dollars NUMBER(7,2))