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Caryll 4
Caryll 4
Caryll 4
Physical Database
• Lowest level of database
• Consists of magnetic spots on magnetic
disks.
• The other levels of the database are
abstract representations of the physical
level. (user view, conceptual view, and
internal view)
Relational Database
Edgar Codd originally proposed the principles of the
relational model in the late 1960s. The formal model
has its foundations in relational algebra and set
theory, which provide the theoretical basis for most
of the data manipulation operations used.
Physical:
Inventories
Customers
Employees
Conceptual:
Sales to customer
Accounts receivable
Accounts payable
• Occurrence- is used to describe the
number of instances or records that
pertain to specific entity.