Database Users and Administrators

Lecture 6

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 Assessing the Video Viewing

1. What do you mean by database users?

2. What is database administrator in DBMS?
3. What are the four types of database users?
4. How many types of users work in database?

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 Review of Previous Class Topic

• Transaction Management -Database

Architecture

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 Database Users
Users are differentiated by the way they expect to interact with
the system
• Application programmers – interact with system through DML calls
• Sophisticated users – form requests in a
database query language
•
• Specialized users – write specialized database
•applications that do not fit into the traditional data
processing framework
• •Naïve users – invoke one of the permanent
application programs that have
been written previously
• – Examples, people accessing database over the web,
bank tellers, clerical staff
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 Question for Attendance

1. _________ users interact with the

system without writing programs.
2. ______users are sophisticated users
who write specialized database
applications that do not fit into the
traditional data-processing
framework

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 Database Administrator
• Coordinates all the activities of the database system
– has a good understanding of the enterprise’s
information resources and needs.
• Database administrator's duties include:
– Storage structure and access method
definition
– Schema and physical organization
modification
– Granting users authority to access the
database
– Backing up data
– Monitoring performance and responding to
changes
• Database tuning
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 Mid Assessment

• A person who has such central control

over the system is called a __________

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 Mid Assessment

2. What are the functions of DBA?

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 Mid Assessment

3. ____________are computer
professionals who write application
programs

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 Next topic for Lect. 8

• Introduction to the Relational

Model

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