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Lecture # 3
Database Systems
• For example, the product name and its price can be stored in database. The
total bill can be created as and when desired. Similarly, the marks of
different subjects can be stored in database. The overall grade of the
students can be calculated when result card is prepared.
• External level is described in external schema. It is also called subschemas.
External schemas refer to different views of data.
Logical or Conceptual Level / View
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• The rules specified by the schema of record are not enforced at physical
level.
• Data is managed by operating system at physical level.
• Internal level is described in internal schemas.
• They describe the internal mode.
• They contain the definitions of stored records, methods of
representation, data fields and indexes etc.
• There is only one internal schema for one database.
Mapping
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• Entity-Relationship
• Semantic
• Object-Oriented etc.
Physical Data Models
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