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• Define a database.
• Define and explain the significance of entities, attributes,
and key fields.
• Define a relational database and explain how it organizes and
stores information.
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• Explain the role of entity-relationship diagrams and
normalization in database design.
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• Define a nonrelational database management system and explain
how it differs from a relational DBMS.
6-2 What are the principles of a database management system?
• Define a database management system (DBMS), describe how it
works, and explain how it benefits
organizations.
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• Define and compare the logical and physical views of data.
• Define and describe the three operations of a relational
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• Name and describe the three major capabilities of a DBMS.
• Define nonrelational databases and describe their
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Database:- it is a collection of related files

containing records of humans, cities, or country

,Telephone diary. It is method to store data digitally on computer

system and eassy to access and very fast.

Relational database :- it is used to organize

data into two-dimensional tables (relations) with columns and
rows.

Entity: An Entity is an object or a thing in

the real world which has a unique set of properties to distinguish
it from all other objects. For example, each Student is an entity
with a unique student-id.

Attributes: Each entity is described in a

database by the help of a set of Attributes. These attributes help
in
distinguishing the entities. For example each Student has
student-id, name, age, class. These are the
attributes of Student
entity.
 Key Fields: The entities are distinguished from
one-another using the fields in the database. The keys
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• Superkey:The set of one or more attributes

that collectively help to identify each entity uniquely. For
instance, Name and Student-id help to identify each student
uniquely.

• Candidate Key: The superkey whose no proper

subset is a super key is called a

candidate Key. For instance, the Name and Student-id together

form the super key but

Student-id is the candidate Key.

• Primary Key: The candidate key chosen by the

database designer to uniquely identify the entities is
called the
Primary Key. Like, Student-id, if chosen by the programmer, can be
the Primary Key for Student
database.

Relational Database :- It is  a

collection of tables to represent both data and the relationship
between
those data.

eg:-

Entity Relational Diagram

it is a logical structure of the database can be easily

represented using the Entity-Relationship Diagrams.

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Normalization:

it is a kind of modifications should be done

related to attribute of a particular entity in the database.

Non-relational databases:-

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Principles Of Database Management

Syatem(DBMS)

Database is a collection of data in such a way that all the data

is maintained in a structured manner. Some
principles that are
taken into consideration while maintaining database can be given
as:

• Data definition: Data definition defines the

structure of the data, in which the data has been maintained.
By
using these capabilities, a non-technical user can use the table
without bothering about the formatting
of the data.

• Data dictionary: Data dictionary means the

arrangement of data of similar type together. According to
the
needs of the consumer, similar type of data has been stored at a
single location.

• Data manipulation language: Data manipulation

language consist of the elements that are used to access
and modify
the data in the table.

Database Management System: A Database

Management System (DBMS) is a technique designed to
insert, delete,
store, retrieve or manipulate the data in the database. People
generally feel tables are same
as the database. It is not so. Table
is a storage area in for storage of values of variables. Database
is a pool
of data.

Working of DBMS and Benefits to

Organization:DBMS works on the principle of Data
Abstraction where
the system provides the users an abstract view of
the data. This abstraction is based on the requirements
of the
user.

For instance, if a user wants to see just the names of all

Students in class 1-A he can only see the same.
The information
about other students of other classes is not displayed to the
user.

Hence DBMS provides a convenient environment that is also

efficient in storing and retrieving the data
from the database.

Physical and Logical Data View: To hide the

complexity from users, the developers use different levels of
abstraction or views of the data. The level of abstraction for
Physical View is the lowest and is followed by
the Logical
View.
 Physical View:This describes the physical
organization of the data. It is the lowest level of abstraction and
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Logical View:Logical view proceeds the Physical

level of abstraction. This level indicates what data is stored
in
memory. It also describes the relationship between those data. This
level of abstraction is used by the
Database Administrator, for
deciding what information is to be kept in the database.

Operations of Relational Database Management

System: The operations of a Relational DBMS include:

Select: The select operation selects the rows

(tuples) that satisfy the given requirements. For instance, to
select the students of class 1-A the operation would be:

Project: Project is a unary operation that

returns the argument relation with certain attribute left-out. It
is
denoted by the Greek Letter “pi” ( p ). Thus to find the list of
names and marks would be:

Union: When we require the data appearing in

two or more relations, then we need the “union” operation.
For
instance, to find customers in a bank who are either employee or
borrower, the union operation would

be:

Capabilities:

Major capabilities of DBMS are:

Integrity Constraints: The integrity

constraints in DBMS are explicitly specified each time a query is
executed. This helps the user to carry out the operations only
which he requires. If these were embedded
in the programs, the code
would have to be re-written each time a new task needs to be
carried out.

Restricted Concurrent Access:DBMS does not

allow the same data to be modified by two different
programs
simultaneously. If it had allowed, them their would have been
discrepencies as to which data
should be finally stored in the
database.

Atomicity:DBMS allows the changes to be stored

in the database only if the entire program gets executed.
Else it
returns to the condition when none of the data was modified. For
instance, during transfer of Rs 500
from Account-A to Account-B,
the account balances would be modified only if the entire transfer
takes
place.

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