The Database Environment
Understand data management, databases, and data models. Learn the importance of DBMS, and the evolution of modern DBMSs. Explore database design principles and practical applications.
The Database Environment
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The Database Environment IST359 M005 Yang Wang ywang@syr.edu 342 Hinds http://blackboard.syr.edu
Acknowledgements and caveat • These slides draw liberally, with permission, from the following sources: • IST359materials byProf. Michael Fudge Jr. • Caveat (beware): At best, PowerPoint slides are only a pale limitation of the entirety of a class meeting. In IST359 in particular, the lectures will cover topics beyond what appears in these slides. Don’t rely on them as a substitute for attending class.
Teaching Assistant Zhiheng Mai zmai@syr.edu
Learning Objectives • Concretize the concepts of data, information, data management and metadata • Explain what a database is and why databases are important • Describe a database management system • Differentiate between the DBMS and a database • Describe the different data models and abstraction layers • Explain the similarities and differences among DBMS products • Explain DBMS history and modern uses • Describe how data is physically stored in primary and secondary storage
Activity: Data or Meta-Data? • A Zip Code: 13244 • A Zip Code is 5 Characters XXXXX • A List of First Names: Tom, Dick, Harry • A Picture, Like This One: • The Name of the Picturefile FrostTrees.jpg • When you place an order, the quantity of the item ordered must be a number >0
Somethingstrangeand confusing: • Data can be information: • $5 (the amount of money in my wallet) • Information can be data: • I calculate student final grades, then place them on a form sent to the registrar’s office. • Metadata can be data: • The names of MP3 files in your personal collection. Actually it’s all about context!
Elements of a Database Database Data-Management Meta-Data Data “In” Data Information “Out” End-User DBMS is software. It stores the data/meta data and “enables” data-management
Clarification via Family Guy • Brian can write his novel on a typewriter or w/pen and paper. • But there are obvious advantages to using word processing software. • Most databases use DBMS’s just like most papers are written with word processors Database Brian’s Novel DBMS WP Software
Fundamental Axioms of DBMSs • Users communicate with computer apps • Computer apps communicate with DBMSs • Users normally do not communicate with DBMSsdirectly • Normally DBMSs are not used interactively • A DBMS is not a replacement for sound database design principles.
First of many examples for the semester • https://my.ischool.syr.edu Website Db using Relational Model You Web Server (IIS) Web Browser SQL Server User Interface and Business Logic (HTML/C#) Data access logic and Data (SQL) ApplicationComponents
Data or Metadata? Database? DBMS?
Enterprise DBMS Market Share * Source: Computerworld 2007
DBMS deployment plans 2008 * source: gartner
An employable skill in the future. Source BLS: 2008http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151061.htm
Data Models: Abstraction Levels Conceptual Highly AbstractHardware and Software Independent Logical Somewhat Abstract Hardware Independent Software Dependent Internal External Not Abstract (Concrete)Hardware and Software Dependent Physical
An Concrete Example • SU administration asks us to build a database for class enrollment • Conceptual model: represent requirements, what needs to be represent in the database? • E.g., student info, class info, a student enrolls in a class • Logicalmodel: what database model to use? Relational, object-oriented, object-relational, etc. • E.g., we use relational model (entities, relations). • Internalmodel: use a DBMS to implement our relational model • E.g., what do the student, class tables look like? • Externalmodel: what the internal model looks like to end users (hide details of the implementation, e.g., tables) • E.g., you can see a student enrolls in a class • Physical model: how database is implemented by the DBMS • E.g., how is the database physically stored? In a single file?
Elements of the DBMS Approach • Enterprise Data Model • Graphical model showing high-level entities and relationships for the organization • Relational Databases • Database technology involving tables (relations) representing entities and primary/foreign keys representing relationships • Use of Internet Technology • Networks and telecommunications, distributed databases, client-server and 3-tier architectures • Database Applications • Application programs used to perform database activities CRUD for database users