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CSC4402Homework1
FelipeRonderos

1.

TheadvantagesDatabaseSystemshavewhencomparedtotraditionalfile
processingsystemsincludetheireliminationofredundancyandinconsistencyin
data.Databasesystemsaregenerallydesignedtostorevaluesinoneplacewhere
theycanbereferencedbyotherentities.Thismakesitmucheasiertoupdateavalue
andpreserveconsistency.MostDatabaseSystemsalsoenforceconsistencyrules
whenvaluesareaddedorchangedandhaveAtomicTransactionsinorderto
preservetheDatasconsistencyevenwhenerrorsoccur.

2.

PhysicalDataIndependencereferstotheabilitytohavenodependenceonthe
physicalschemaofanapplication.Thisallowstheotherpartsoftheapplicationto
remainunaffectedwhenthephysicalschemaischanged.

LogicalDataIndependencereferstothesameconceptforthephysicalpartofa
system.Thisphysicalpartshouldgenerallyremainunaffectedevenifthelogical
schemachangesdramatically.

Thethreelevelarchitectureinthediagramaboveshowshowinterfacesand
abstractionsallowdifferentpartsofadatabasesystemtoremaincompartmentalized

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andindependent.Thismakesitmucheasiertochangeanyonepartofthesystemas
sideeffectsaregenerallycontainedtothetierwhichischanged.

3.

DBMS,DatabaseManagementSystem:
ADBMSisasetofSoftwareforsettingup,configuring,interactingwithand
maintainingaDatabaseSystem.

DBA,DatabaseAdministrator:
ADBAisresponsibleforconfiguring,andmaintainingadatabasesystem.Theyare
alsoresponsibleforensuringdataissecure,protectedandaccessibletothe
appropriateusers.

DataIntegrity:
ThisreferstotheexpectationthatDatawillbeconsistentandconformtospecified
constraints.

DataInconsistency:
Whenvariouscopiesofdatadonotagreeorconformtospecifiedconstraints.

DataAbstraction:
Thisreferstotheabilitytoaccessandmanagedatathroughaseriesofabstractor
highlevelinterfacesaccessibletousersandadministrators.

PhysicalSchema:
Thisdescribesthedatabasedesignatthephysicallevel,includinghowdataisstored
andaccessed(e.g.inafilesystem)aswellashowthedatabaseishostedand
physicallymaintained.

LogicalSchema:
Thisdescribesthedataschemasdefinedbyandinteractedwithbyusersand
administratorsaswellastheinterfacesavailabletothem.

DataModel:
Thesetofconceptsusedtodescribedata,relationshipsandconstraints..

DDL,DataDefinitionLanguage:
ADDLallowssomeonetospecifyadatabaseschemaaswellasadditionaldata
propertiesandconstraints.

DataDictionary:
InformationaboutadatabaseoutputbytheDDLisplacedinthedatadictionary,
whichisusedasareferencebytheDBMS.

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RelationalDatabase:
Adatabasebasedontherelationalmodelwhichusescollectionsoftablesto
representbothdataandrelationshipsbetweendata.

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SELECTSnum,Name,ProgramFROMCSC4402WHERECity=BatonRouge
UPDATECSC4402SETDept=CSCWHERESnum=S6
DELETEFROMCSC4402WHEREcity=Lafayette
INSERTINTOCSC4402(Snum,Name,Dept,Program,City)
VALUES(S8,Rachel,CSC,Ph.D,BatonRouge)
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