Wednesday, 23 February 2011

CHAPTER 7:STORING ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION DATABASES

Definition of databases - maintains information about various types of objects (inventory), events (transactions),
                                     people (employees), and places (warehouses)

Databases models:
Hierarchical databases model - informations is organized into a tree-like structure (using parent/child relationship) in such a way that it cannot have too many relationships

Network databases model - a flexible way of representing objects and their relationships

Relational databases model - stores information in the form of logically related two-dimensional tables

Relational Databases Advantages:
  - increased flexibility
  - increased scalability and performance
  - reduced information redundancy
  - increased information integrity (quality)
  - increased information security

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