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Chapter 1
Introduction: Databases and
Database Users
integrity
Limited Data Sharing
No centralized control of data
Each application has its own private files & users has little chance to
share data outside their own applications
Integrity problems
Integrity constraints
Hard to add new constraints or change existing ones
Data:
Known facts that can be recorded and have an implicit meaning.
Mini-world:
Some part of the real world about which data is stored in a