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    The document discusses the key characteristics and utilities of a database management system (DBMS). Some key characteristics of a DBMS include: allowing interactive data access without writing new programs, correlating different data to meet new requirements, providing an independent central data repository, and facilitating simultaneous access by multiple users. Major DBMS utilities mentioned are: a data loading utility, backup utility, recovery utility, and monitoring tools. The document also contrasts features of file systems with DBMS, noting DBMS provides more efficient data storage and retrieval, concurrent access control, crash recovery, and protection.

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    The document discusses the key characteristics and utilities of a database management system (DBMS). Some key characteristics of a DBMS include: allowing interactive data access without writing new programs, correlating different data to meet new requirements, providing an independent central data repository, and facilitating simultaneous access by multiple users. Major DBMS utilities mentioned are: a data loading utility, backup utility, recovery utility, and monitoring tools. The document also contrasts features of file systems with DBMS, noting DBMS provides more efficient data storage and retrieval, concurrent access control, crash recovery, and protection.

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    The document discusses the key characteristics and utilities of a database management system (DBMS). Some key characteristics of a DBMS include: allowing interactive data access without writing new programs, correlating different data to meet new requirements, providing an independent central data repository, and facilitating simultaneous access by multiple users. Major DBMS utilities mentioned are: a data loading utility, backup utility, recovery utility, and monitoring tools. The document also contrasts features of file systems with DBMS, noting DBMS provides more efficient data storage and retrieval, concurrent access control, crash recovery, and protection.

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    CHARACTERISTICS OF DBMS

    • To incorporate the requirements of the organization, system should be designed


    for easy maintenance.
    • Information systems should allow interactive access to data to obtain new
    information without writing fresh programs.
    • System should be designed to co-relate different data to meet new requirements.
    • An independent central repository, which gives information and meaning of
    available data is required.
    • Integrated database will help in understanding the inter-relationships between data
    stored in different applications.
    • The stored data should be made available for access by different users
    simultaneously.
    • Automatic recovery feature has to be provided to overcome the problems with
    processing system failure.

    DBMS Utilities

    • A data loading utility:


    Which allows easy loading of data from the external format without writing
    programs.
    • A backup utility:
    Which allows to make copies of the database periodically to help in cases of
    crashes and disasters.
    • Recovery utility:
    Which allows to reconstruct the correct state of database from the backup and
    history of transactions.
    • Monitoring tools:
    Which monitors the performance so that internal schema can be changed and
    database access can be optimized.
    • File organization:
    Which allows restructuring the data from one type to another?

    Difference between File system & DBMS

    File System

    1. File system is a collection of data. Any management with the file system, user has to
    write the procedures
    2. File system gives the details of the data representation and Storage of data.
    3. In File system storing and retrieving of data cannot be done efficiently.
    4. Concurrent access to the data in the file system has many problems like
    a. Reading the file while other deleting some information, updating some information
    5. File system doesn’t provide crash recovery mechanism.
    Eg. While we are entering some data into the file if System crashes then content of the
    file is lost.
    6. Protecting a file under file system is very difficult.

    DBMS
    1. DBMS is a collection of data and user is not required to write the procedures for
    managing the database.
    2. DBMS provides an abstract view of data that hides the details.
    3. DBMS is efficient to use since there are wide varieties of sophisticated techniques to
    store and retrieve the data.
    4. DBMS takes care of Concurrent access using some form of locking.
    5. DBMS has crash recovery mechanism, DBMS protects user from the effects of system
    failures.
    6. DBMS has a good protection mechanism.

    DBMS = Database Management System


    RDBMS = Relational Database Management System

    Source : http://elearningatria.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/introduction.pdf

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