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MGMT 2006 Module 5
MGMT 2006 Module 5
MGMT 2006 Module 5
Information Systems I
Module 5
Managing Data Resources
Simon Fraser
simon.fraser@sta.uwi.edu
Objectives
• By the end of this module students will be able to:
– describe basic file organization concepts and the problems of the
traditional file environment.
– describe how a database management system organizes
information.
– compare the principal types of databases.
– identify important database design principles and the managerial
and organizational requirements of a database environment.
– discuss new trends in data management.
p Relational DBMS
p Object-Oriented Databases
What is the
name and
address of
suppliers for
part
numbers 137
and 152
Order File
Order File
Customer File
Customer_ID Name Address
40 John Smith 123 East Way
21 Peter James 234 North Way
75 Simon Fraser 456 North Way
An Normalized Relation of ORDER
Centralized database
Distributed database
– Partitioned database
– Duplicated database
Data warehouse
Data mart
Data Mining
Hypermedia database
• And the data sets can be so large that they can not be
efficiently managed by conventional database technology
(RDBMS)
Database server
• Computer in a client/server environment runs a
DBMS to process SQL statements and perform
database management tasks
Application server
• Software handling all application operations
Web Server
• Software designed to send web pages to a browser
based on a request by a user.
March 10, 2021 MGMT 2006 61
Making Databases Accessible
on the WWW