Advantages and of a DBMS

Using a DBMS to manage data has many advantages: Data independence: Application programs should be as independent as possible from details of data representation and storage. The DBMS can provide an abstract view of the data to insulate application code from such details. Efficient data access: A DBMS utilizes a variety of sophisticated techniques to … Read more

Characteristics of Database

The database approach has some very characteristic features which are discussed in detail below: Concurrent Use A database system allows several users to access the database concurrently. Answering different questions from different users with the same (base) data is a central aspect of an information system. Such concurrent use of data increases the economy of … Read more

Database Oriented Approach to Data Management

Consider part of a savings-bank enterprise that keeps information about all customers and savings accounts. One way to keep the information on a computer is to store it in operating system files. To allow users to manipulate the information, the system has a number of application programs that manipulate the files, including A program to … Read more

File Oriented Approach

The earliest business computer systems were used to process business records and produce information. They were generally faster and more accurate than equivalent manual systems. These systems stored groups of records in separate files, and so they were called file processing systems. In a typical file processing systems, each department has its own files, designed … Read more

Data Processing Vs. Data Management Systems

Although Data Processing and Data Management Systems both refer to functions that take raw data and transform it into usable information, the usage of the terms is very different. Data Processing is the term generally used to describe what was done by large mainframe computers from the late 1940’s until the early 1980’s (and which … Read more

database-management system

A database-management system (DBMS) is a collection of interrelated data and a set of programs to access those data. This is a collection of related data with an implicit meaning and hence is a database. The collection of data, usually referred to as the database, contains information relevant to an enterprise. The primary goal of … Read more

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DBMS & RDBMS

A DBMS has to be persistent, that is it should be accessible when the program created the data ceases to exist or even the application that created the data restarted. A DBMS also has to provide some uniform methods independent of a specific application for accessing the information that is stored. RDBMS is a Relational … Read more

WHAT IS RDBMS?

RDBMS stands for Relational Database Management System. RDBMS data is structured in database tables, fields and records. Each RDBMS table consists of database table rows. Each database table row consists of one or more database table fields. RDBMS store the data into collection of tables, which might be related by common fields (database table columns). … Read more

Install DDrescue Data Recovery Tool On Ubuntu 16.04

DDrescue Data Recovery Tool for Ubuntu 16.04. Install DDrescue (CLI Data Recovery Tool) on Ubuntu 16.04 DDRescue-GUI is a powerful tool (with graphical user interface) to recover data from corrupted hard drives and flash memories (USB drives) on Linux Ubuntu. To be more specific, DDRescue-GUI uses the dump (dd) tool. DDRescue-GUI  application is implemented in … Read more

How to Install Kodi Media Center in Ubuntu

1. Open terminal either from application menu or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run command to add the PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.    install Kodi 18.5 via commands: sudo apt update sudo apt install kodi