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Q:- How is data managed by organization? Write about the technical foundation of
Database management system.
Ans:- Data are raw facts or observations typically about physical phenomenon or business
transactions.More specifically data are objective measurements of the attributes (or characteristics) of
entities (suchas people, places, things and events).organizations – Big and Small – generate lot of
data in terms of activities they perform. Even individuals need to handle lot of data in their day to
day data storage and retrieval is one of the central activities in Information processing. In early days
of business, Data banks existed in the minds of key Personnel in the business. As the volume and
complexity increased several tools like, Books, records, manuals, drawings etc., were devised as
“Data banks” and manual procedures and skills were evolved to retrieve information from these
banks when needed. But now the data are stored in various ways. New new technology has been
developed to store and manage voluminous data in very convenient and protective way. For example
hard Disk, CD, Maganetic Disk,Pen Drive etc are used to store large and complex data.
However these techniques were not reliable and fast enough when the
information involved was huge and complex. Hence business decisions could not be accurate and
timely. To correct this Lacuna, Information systems were computerized. The speed and accuracy of
computers resulted in tremendous improvement of reliability and timeliness of information
generated. This process however, involved the development of techniques and tools to handle data
banks on computers, namely, the tools to store and retrieve information in computers. The
development of such techniques and tools resulted in what are known as DBMS packages. Integrated
databanks stored in Computer Systems are called “Databases.
Database management system (DBMS) is a software lies between the physical database and users
of the system. All the requests coming from users for data manipulation are handled by the DBMS.
DBMS provides computational capacity to store, retrieve,edit, sort and perform computations
including statistics upon data, which it extracts from its storage. The
tasks handled by DBMS packages can be classified as:
a. Database Development - Define, organize the content, relationships and structure of the data
needed to build a database.
b. Database Interrogation - Access the data in a database to display information in various
Formats. Users can selectively retrieve and display information and produce forms, reports, and
other documents.
c. Database Maintenance - Add, delete, update, and correct the data in a database.
d. Application Development - Develop prototypes of queries, presentation forms, reports for a
Proposed business application.