Software houses took up the
challenge, of designing a system that would help in managing data in such a database. These systems were called
Database Management Systems (DBMS). DBMS is a system that allows inserting,
updating, deleting and processing of data. Some of the DBMS developed by software
houses were Oracle, Ingress, Sybase, DBase 3+, Foxbase, Foxpro, MS Access and
so on.
C. J. Dates define a
database system, as a computer base record keeping system whose overall purpose
to record and maintain information. In other word, database is a collection of
related records and a set of programs to access this data. Because it is an
entire system and enables ones to enter, store and manage data it is call
Database Management System.
Benefits of DBMS
- The amount of
data redundancy in stored data can be reduced
- No more data
inconsistencies
- Stored data can
be shared by a single or multiple users
- Standards can
be set and followed
- Data integrity
can be maintained.
- Data integrity
refers to the problem of ensuring that database contains only accurate data
- Security of
data can be simply implemented
- Data
independence can be achieved, i.e. data and programs that manipulate the data
are two different entities
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