Database Systems

Introduction

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Application program
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Application program
Database
User system
 Data
• Recorded facts! (particulars)
• Data can be :
Number, text, video, image, audio…
 Database
• Collection of related data, Built for a specific purpose.

Sourse: Ramez El-Masri and Shamkant Navathe

 Software
• DataBase Management Systems (DBMSs)
• Programs to
– define the database (data types and structure),
– construct the database (storing on the disk) and
– manipulate the data (add ,delete, queries,
reports) and maintain the database.
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 DBS
data database DBMS
 Meta-data
Define and describe
the database

(catalog or dictionary)

Sourse: Ramez El-Masri and Shamkant Navathe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8jgX1f8kc4
 Examples of database types
• Traditional database
– Store textual or numeric information
• Multimedia database
– images, audio clips, and video streams
• Geographic information systems (GIS)
– maps, weather data, and satellite images
• Data warehouses and online analytical
processing (OLAP) systems
– huge amount of data used in business and
contains historical, to predict the future from the
past (Support decision making)
• Real-time and active database
– Control industrial and manufacturing processes,
stores and supermarkets.
DBMSs
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