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� Purpose of Database Systems� View of Data� Data Models� Data Definition Language� Data Manipulation Language� Transaction Management� Storage Management� Database Administrator�
Database Users� Overall System Structure
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� Collection of interrelated data� Set of programs to access the data� DBMS contains information about a
particular enterprise� DBMS provides an environment that is bothconvenient and efficient to use.
� Database Applications:
Banking: all transactions Airlines: reservations, schedules
Universities: registration, grades
Sales: customers, products, purchases
Manufacturing: production, inventory, orders, supply chain
Human resources: employee records, salaries, tax deductions
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� In the early days, database applications
were built on top of file systems
� Drawbacks of using file systems to store
data: Data redundancy and inconsistency
Multiple file formats, duplication of information in different files
Difficulty in accessing data
Integrity problems
Integrity constraints (e.g. account balance > 0) become part of
program code
Hard to add new constraints or change existing ones
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� Drawbacks of using file systems (cont.) Atomicity of updates
Failures may leave database in an inconsistent state with partial updatescarried out
E.g. transfer of funds from one account to another should eithercomplete or not happen at all
Concurrent access by multiple users
Concurrent accessed needed for performance
Uncontrolled concurrent accesses can lead to inconsistencies
E.g. two people reading a balance and updating it at the same time
Security problems
� Database systems offer solutions to all theabove problems
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� Users
� Application programmer
� End-users� Database Administrator
� Software
�
Hardware� Data
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� Coordinates all the activities of thedatabase system; the database
administrator has a goodunderstanding of the enterprisesinformation resources and needs.
� Database administrator's duties
include: Storage structure and access method definition
Schema and physical organization modification
Granting user authority to access the database
Specifying integrity constraints
Monitoring performance and responding to changes in
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� Reduction in data redundancy
� Reduction in Inconsistency
� Sharing of data� Enforcement of standards
� Improvement in data security
� Maintenance of data integrity
� Better interaction with users
� Efficient system
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� Data models are a collection of conceptual
tools for describing data, data
relationships, data semantics and dataconstraints
� A data model is a "description" of both acontainer for data and a methodology for
storing and retrieving data from thatcontainer
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� Hierarchical data model
� Network data model
� Relational Model
� Object Oriented Model
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� Collection of trees� Define hierarchically-arranged data�
single table acts as the "root" of the database fromwhich other tables "branch" out� Disadvantage
cannot add a record to a child table until it has already
been incorporated into the parent table creates repetition of data within the database
handle one-to-many relationships well but do not handle
many-to-many relationships well
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� solves the problem of data redundancy by
representing relationships in terms of sets
rather than hierarchy� Hierarchical Model- subset of the network
model
� support many-to-many relationships
� the model was difficult to implement andmaintain
� used by computer programmers rather than
real users
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� Collection of two-dimensional tables
� Table is a collection of records and each
record in a table contains the same fields� Concept of how users perceive data
� Organization of data into relational tables isknown as the logical view of the database
� Allows the definition of data structures,storage and retrieval operations and integrity
constraints
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� File Management Systems
� Hierarchical ModelIBM Information Management System (IMS) 1966
� Network ModelCharles Bachman s Integraded DataStore (IDS) 1965
C onference on DataSystems Languages /DataBaseT ask
Group CODASYL/DBTG (1971)� Relational ModelE.F. C odd, 1970
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Provided facilities to extract data and share
files, but did not implement any way to
connect records in one file to those inanother. Relationships had to be
implemented in application code.
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Program 1
Program 2
Program 3
Meta-Data
Meta-Data
Meta-Data
Data
Program 1
Program 2
Program 3
Meta-
Data
Data
FILE SYSTEM
DATABASE
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Relationships were implemented by physical
pointers (called sets) which allowed records
to be connected in different files. Hierarchical databases allow only one parent set;
networ ks allow several. These permitefficient processing but the sets must be
constructed on data entry and cannot berearranged later.
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Relational models implement relationships
with matched data values in related files
(called primary and foreign keys). Anyattributes can be matched. The connection is
established at retrieval so interconnectionscan be developed as needed.
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STUDENT
SECTION
INSTRUCTOR
COLLEGECOLLEGE
Each file can have only one parent. To implement a second ³parent´ (COLLEGE) we have to implement a
shadow copy.
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STUDENT
SECTION
INSTRUCTOR
COLLEGE
Each file can have several parents. Both SECTION and COLLEGE are ³parent´ files..
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SECTION
COLLEGE
Each file can have several parents. Both SECTION and COLLEGE are ³parent´ files..
STUDENT
COLLEGE-KEY
INSTRUCTOR
COLLEGE-KEY
SECTION-STUDENT
SECTION-KEY STUDENT-KEY
SECTION-INSTRUCTOR
SECTION-KEY INSTRUCTOR-KEY
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� Entity
Person, place, thing or event about which we wish
to keep data� Attribute
property of an entity
� Relationship
an association among entities (entity records)
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� Physical level describes how a record (e.g.,customer) is stored.
� Logical level: describes data stored in database,
and the relationships among the data.type customer = record
name : string;street : string;cit y : integer;
end;� View level: application programs hide details of
data types. Views can also hide information(e.g., salary) for security purposes.
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An architecture for a database system
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�
Similar to types and variables in programming languages� Schema the logical structure of the database
e.g., the database consists of information about a set of customers and accounts andthe relationship between them)
Analogous to type information of a variable in a program
Physical schema: database design at the physical level
ogical schema: database design at the logical level� Instance the actual content of the database at a particular point in time
Analogous to the value of a variable
� Physical Data Independence the ability to modify the physical schema
without changing the logical schema
Applications depend on the logical schema
In general, the interfaces between the various levels and components should be welldefined so that changes in some parts do not seriously influence others.
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� A c ll cti f t ls f r scri i data
data r lati s i s
data s a tics
data c strai ts
� Entity-R lati ns i del� Relati nal del
� t er dels: object-oriented odel semi-str ct red data models lder models: net ork model and ierarc ical model
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Example of schema in the entity-relationship model
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� E-R model of real world Entities (objects)
E.g. customers, accounts, bank branch
Relationships between entities
E.g. Account A-101 is held by customer Johnson
Relationship set depositor associates customers with accounts
� Widely used for database design Database design in E-Rmodel usually converted to design in the relational
model (coming up next) which is used for storage and processing
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�
Example of tabular data in the relational modelcustomer-
nameCustomer-id
customer-
street
customer-
city account-
number
Johnson
Smith
Johnson
Jones
Smith
192-83-7465
019-28-3746
192-83-7465
321-12-3123
019-28-3746
Alma
North
Alma
Main
North
Palo Alto
Rye
Palo Alto
Harrison
Rye
A-101
A-215
A-201
A-217
A-201
Attributes
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� DDL is used to create, remove and alter thestructure of database object
� The DDL is used for table defination
� DDL compiler generates a set of tablesstored in a data dictionar y
� Data dictionary contains metadata (i.e.,
data about data)� Create table command� Alter table command� Drop table command
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� DML command are used to query andmanipulate existing database objects DML also known as query language
� SQL is the most widely used query language� Insert
� Select
�
Update� Delete
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� SQL: widely used non-procedural language E.g. find the name of the customer with customer-id 192-83-7465
select customer .customer-name
from customer
where customer .customer-id = 192-83-7465 E.g. find the balances of all accounts held by the customer with customer-id
192-83-7465select account .balancefrom depositor , account
where depositor .customer-id = 192-83-7465 and
depositor .account-number = account .account-number
� Application programs generally access
databases through one of Language extensions to allow embedded SQL
Application program interface (e.g. ODBC/JDBC) which allow SQL queries tobe sent to a database
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� Users are differentiated by the way they
expect to interact with the system
� Application programmers interact withsystem through DML calls
� Sophisticated users form requests in adatabase query language
� Specialized users write specialized databaseapplications that do not fit into the traditional
data processing framework
� Naïve users invoke one of the permanent
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� A transaction is a collection of operations that
performs a single logical function in a
database application� Transaction-management component
ensures that the database remains in aconsistent (correct) state despite system
failures (e.g., power failures and operatingsystem crashes) and transaction failures.
� Concurrency-control manager controls the
interaction among the concurrent
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� Storage manager is a program module that
provides the interface between the low-level
data stored in the database and theapplication programs and queries submitted
to the system.
� The storage manager is responsible to the
following tasks: interaction with the file manager
efficient storing, retrieving and updating of data